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| Basic information | Name: North Edwards This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 Country: United States Mass:  3 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12780 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 1 Nov 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 109:
North Edwards 35.055º N, 117.811º W California, United States Find: 1976 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6) History: The meteorite was found by Mike Brady in 1976 close (within about 50 m east) to Claymine Road, about 4 km NNE of the community of North Edwards, Kern County, California. The discovery location is no longer known to better than a distance of ±200 m; the location is within an unnamed cluster of small volcanic domes. Physical characteristics: The mass as received at UCLA was 2438 g. Two medium-size pieces had previously been removed thus the original mass was about 3 kg. Petrography: The meteorite is highly recrystallized; plagioclase grains are 40-100 µm in size. Ca-pyroxene has a composition of Fs7.9±0.7 Wo44.7±0.8 (n=4). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB109 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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