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Grosvenor Mountains 17071
Basic information Name: Grosvenor Mountains 17071
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: GRO 17071
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 184.1 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 43(1)  (2020)  H6
Recommended:  H6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6686 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as H6.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 21 Feb 2020
Data from:
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Date:2017
Latitude:-85.851
Longitude:174.164
Mass (g):184.077
Pieces:1
Class:H6
Weathering grade:B/Ce
Fayalite (mol%):19
Ferrosilite (mol%):17
Magnetic suscept.:5.14
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):184.077
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::   (85° 51' 4"S, 174° 9' 50"E)

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