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Willcox Playa 011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Willcox Playa 011 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2018 Country: United States Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12347 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 6 Oct 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 107:
Willcox Playa 011 32°7.0’N, 109°53.3’W Arizona, United States Find: 2018 Jan 22 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6) History: A single stone was recovered by Mr. Chris McDoniel while he was searching for an old aircraft crash site. Field ID#: UU180122A Petrography: (D. Sheikh, FSU) Chondrule boundaries blurred (900±100 μm, N=4). Recrystallized coarse-grained matrix with plagioclase (60 μm). Interconnected shock melt veins. Geochemistry: Olivine, Fa25.1±0.2. N=49; orthopyroxene, Fs22.4±0.2Wo3.0±0.1, N=51. Classification: Ordinary Chondrite (L6) Specimens: 8.2 grams at UCLA; main mass with Robert Verish. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB107 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) FSU: Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 32306-4100, United States (institutional address; updated 16 Dec 2010) Verish: Robert Verish, Meteorite-Recovery Lab, P.O. Box 463084, Escondido, CA 92046, United States; Website (private address; updated 27 May 2009) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Statistics: This is 1 of 178 approved meteorites from Arizona, United States (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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