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El Médano 429
Basic information Name: El Médano 429
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: EM 429
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: Chile
Mass:help 87.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2021)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8974 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 31 Jan 2020
Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Antofagasta
Date:14 Nov. 2017
Latitude:24°44.85'S
Longitude:70°21.97'W
Mass (g):87.7
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Weathering grade:W2
Fayalite (mol%):24.26±0.1 (N=2)
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.77±0.21 (N=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.57±0.19 (N=2)
Magnetic suscept.:4.86
Classifier:E. Jacquet, B. Doisneau, MNHNP, H. Pourkhorsandi, ULB
Type spec mass (g):87.7
Type spec location:MNHNP
Main mass:MNHNP
Finder:Matthieu Gounelle
Comments:Field name: DM44; submitted by B. Doisneau
Institutions
   and collections
MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address)
ULB: Université libre de Bruxelles Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 - 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium (institutional address; updated 27 Sep 2018)
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References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Bullock E., Chennaoui Aoudjehane H., Debaille V., D’Orazio M., Komatsu M., Miao B. and Schrader D. L. (2021) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 109. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 56, 1626–1630.
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Geography:

Chile
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (24° 44' 51"S, 70° 21' 58"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 3632 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 3661 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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