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| Basic information | Name: Eldorado Valley 003 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: EV 003 Observed fall: No Year found: 2014 Country: United States Mass:  2.72 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 23 Apr 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Eldorado Valley 003 (EV 003) 35°55.35’N, 114°47.53’W Nevada, United States Find: 2 April 2014 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6) History: This stone was found by J. Franske while he was hunting for meteorites on open desert. Physical characteristics: This stone is essentially pyramidal in shape, approximately 80% fusion crusted, and exhibits regmaglypts. Petrography: A. Rubin and J. Breen, UCLA. Plagioclase grains are typically 60-100 μm in size. The rock exhibits weak mosacisim but does not exhibit maskelynite. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB104 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. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/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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