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Yucca 036
Basic information Name: Yucca 036
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: United States
Mass:help 17.1 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 105  (2016)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12583 approved meteorites (plus 8 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 27 Feb 2016
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 105:

Yucca 036        34°42.845’N, 114°10.697’W

Arizona, United States

Find: 2006 Oct

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

History: Found by Dennis Asher in the "Buck Mountains 002 find area," and later donated to Cascadia.

Physical characteristics: Brownish weathering patina and remnant fusion crust patches occur on rough exterior surfaces.

Petrography: Well integrated chondritic texture visible optically and in BSE imaging. Plagioclase feldspar grains are >50 μm across, indicative of a type 6 chondrite. A large igneous-textured clast is visible along one edge of the section. Silicates in thin section are stained brown, with about 25% of the metal+sulfide weathered to form hydroxides, suggesting a W2 weathering grade. A shock stage of S3 is indicated by the prevalence of undulose extinction and planar fractures in olivine grains.

Geochemistry: (M. Hutson and A. Ruzicka, Cascadia) Olivine (Fa26.1±0.7, N=16), low-Ca pyroxene (Fs21.4±0.1Wo1.8±0.1En81.9±0.2, N= 12).

Classification: L6 based on mineral chemistry and texture.

Specimens: Cascadia holds 15.9 g in a single piece, in addition to two polished thin sections and a mounted butt.

Data from:
  MB105
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Arizona
Date:2006 Oct
Latitude:34°42.845'N
Longitude:114°10.697'W
Mass (g):17.1
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S3
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):26.1±0.7
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.4±0.1
Wollastonite (mol%):1.8±0.1
Magnetic suscept.:4.35
Classifier:M. Hutson and A. Ruzicka, Cascadia
Type spec mass (g):15.9
Type spec location:Cascadia
Main mass:Cascadia
Finder:Dennis Asher
Comments:Lab number CML0715; field number DA-013E; possibly paired with Buck Mountains (BM) 002 and BM003.; submitted by A. Ruzicka
Institutions
   and collections
Cascadia: Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Room 17 Cramer Hall, 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Oct 2011)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (34° 42' 51"N, 114° 10' 42"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 178 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1919 approved meteorites from United States (plus 867 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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