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Grosvenor Mountains 17090
Basic information Name: Grosvenor Mountains 17090
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: GRO 17090
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 18.6 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 43(1)  (2020)  L6
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2021)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 13099 approved meteorites (plus 11 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:2017
Latitude:-85.8002
Longitude:173.851
Mass (g):18.591
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Weathering grade:A/B
Fayalite (mol%):25
Ferrosilite (mol%):21
Magnetic suscept.:4.52
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):18.591
Type spec location:JSC
Main mass:JSC
Finder:ANSMET
Comments:Submitted by AMN
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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 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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     Recommended::   (85° 48' 1"S, 173° 51' 4"E)

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     This is 1 of 45260 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3472 unapproved names)
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