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Larkman Nunatak 12302 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Larkman Nunatak 12302 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: LAR 12302 Observed fall: No Year found: 2012 Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)] Mass: 2.88 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 28 Aug 2015 Revised 28 Oct 2019: Corrected mass, per JSC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from AMN 39(1):
LAR 12302, Reclassification
This meteorite was misclassified in the last newsletter due to a mix-up in sample numbering.The correct classification, based on fayalite content of olivine determined by electron microscopy, is L6 (Fa22). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB104 Table 0 Line 0: |
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Institutions and collections |
JSC: Mailcode XI, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Jul 2022) SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012) |
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References: | Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 38(2) (2015), JSC, Houston Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 39(1) (2016), JSC, Houston 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: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 44543 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Revision history: |
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