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Eldorado Valley 002
Basic information Name: Eldorado Valley 002
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: EV 002
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: United States
Mass:help 12 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11077 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 27 Mar 2014
Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Nevada
Origin or pseudonym:Mojave Desert
Date:10 Dec 2010
Latitude:35°52.95'N
Longitude:114°56.39'W
Mass (g):12
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):18.6±0.3 (n=19)
Ferrosilite (mol%):16.8 (n=16)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.6 (n=8)
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):2.4
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Arlene Schlazer
Finder:Arlene Schlazer
Comments:Complete individual; submitted by Alan Rubin, UCLA
Institutions
   and collections		 UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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United States
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     Recommended::   (35° 52' 57"N, 114° 56' 23"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 158 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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