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| Basic information | Name: Red Hill This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2000 Country: United States Mass:  12.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6493 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 28 Aug 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 104:
Red Hill 35°40’40.44"N, 112°4’20.71"W Arizona, United States Find: 2000 Oct Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H4) History: The specimen was found as a single stone on the range of Deran and Shawn Cameron in northern Arizona on flat rangeland covered with some pinon and juniper trees; there are few rock outcrops on the land. Physical characteristics: The stone is irregularly shaped and about 20 × 25 cm in size. Petrography: The sample has well-defined chondrules and a few low-Ca pyroxene grains have polysynthetic twins. Troilite is polycrystalline; some small metal grains contain small irregular grains of troilite within them as well as a few grains of metallic Cu. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 179 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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