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| Basic information | Name: Lake Los Angeles This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2013 Country: United States Mass:  445 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6501 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as H6. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 22 May 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 103:
Lake Los Angeles 34°38.847’N, 117°48.661’W California, United States Found: 2013 Nov 30 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H6) History: Found by Stephen Poterala while meteorite hunting at the southern edge of a sand dune. Physical characteristics: 92 mm × 70 mm × 57 mm weathered fractured fragmented specimen with a dark brown appearance. Fractures 1 mm wide exhibit embedded terrestrial sand grands. Petrography: Plagioclase grains are greater or equal to 50 µm across. Geochemistry: (A. Rubin, UCLA) EMPA. Olivine Fa18.9±0.4, n=11; low-Ca pyroxene Fs16.7±0.2Wo1.6±0.1, n=6. Specimens: Type specimen and one thin section on deposit, UCLA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB103 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| 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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Statistics: This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Lake Los Angeles (a) (Automatic synonym when (b) was named) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||