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Elephant Moraine 16026
Basic information Name: Elephant Moraine 16026
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: EET 16026
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2016
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 91.6 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 43(1)  (2020)  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 21 Feb 2020
Data from:
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Date:2016
Latitude:-76.253
Longitude:156.384
Mass (g):91.59
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Weathering grade:B
Fayalite (mol%):25
Ferrosilite (mol%):21
Magnetic suscept.:4.55
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):91.59
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:Submitted by AMN
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 43(1) (2020), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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     Recommended::   (76° 15' 11"S, 156° 23' 2"E)

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     This is 1 of 44248 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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