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| Basic information | Name: White River 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:  1920 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12780 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 6 Jun 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 103:
White River 37°44.510’N, 115°07.768’W Nevada, United States Found: 24 June 2013 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6) History: A 1688 g specimen was found by Terry Scott while visually searching for meteorites. Two smaller pieces were found within a 10 m radius. Petrography: The rock is highly recrystallized; chondrules are well-integrated with the matrix material, consistent with petrologic type 6. Plagioclase grains average 60-70 μm. The rock is highly shocked; plagioclase has been partly maskelynitized. Olivine has strong mosaic extinction, consistent with shock-stage S5. Silicates are transected by 10-60 μm-wide opaque melt veins containing small mineral fragments surrounded by tiny troilite grains. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 184 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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