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Grosvenor Mountains 17209
Basic information Name: Grosvenor Mountains 17209
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: GRO 17209
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 10.3 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 109  (2020)  LL5
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 43(1)  (2020)  LL5
Recommended:  LL5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 3295 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as LL5.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 21 Feb 2020
Data from:
  MB109
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Date:2017
Latitude:-85.9194
Longitude:174.354
Mass (g):10.254
Pieces:1
Class:LL5
Weathering grade:A/B
Fayalite (mol%):28
Magnetic suscept.:4.435
Classifier:SI
Type spec mass (g):10.254
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 Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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     Recommended::   (85° 55' 10"S, 174° 21' 14"E)

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     This is 1 of 44400 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names)
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