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Bazine Creek
Basic information Name: Bazine Creek
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: United States
Mass:help 438 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  L4
Recommended:  L4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2061 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L4.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 23 Feb 2015
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 104:

Bazine Creek        38°37’14.02"N, 99°48’29.34"W

Kansas, United States

Find: 2014 Apr 15

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L4)

History: A single mass was found by M. Rooney while he was hunting arrowheads.

Physical characteristics: Well-preserved secondary (classic oatmeal texture) fusion crust over 100% of the stone. No primary fusion crust visible.

Petrography: The plagioclase grains are small, typically <5-10 μm. Chondrules are well defined, consistent with a type 4 designation. A few of the low-Ca pyroxene grains exhibit polysynthetic twinning. This is characteristic of all type-3 and many type-4 ordinary chondrites, but is absent from type 5 OC. Thus, the sample is L4 and not L5.

Specimens: Allen Shaw holds 372.65 g

Data from:
  MB104
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State/Prov/County:Kansas
Place of purchase:On boundry of field where found.
Date:2014 Apr 15
Latitude:38°37'14.02"N
Longitude:99°48'29.34"W
Mass (g):438.45
Pieces:1
Class:L4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):24.3±0.3 (N=15)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.8±0.3
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±0.1 (N=13)
Classifier:A. Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):59.5
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Allen Shaw
Finder:Matthew Rooney
Comments:Submitted by Allen Shaw
Institutions
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UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (38° 37' 14"N, 99° 48' 29"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 147 approved meteorites from Kansas, United States (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1924 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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