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Caleta el Cobre 051
Basic information Name: Caleta el Cobre 051
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: CeC 051
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: Chile
Mass:help 7.75 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  L6-melt breccia
Recommended:  L6-melt breccia    [explanation]

This is 1 of 79 approved meteorites classified as L6-melt breccia.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Melted chondrites, Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 13 Feb 2021
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Writeup from MB 110:

Caleta el Cobre 051 (CeC 051)        24°13’13.2"S, 70°18’22.1"W

Antofagasta, Chile

Find: 2018 Apr 14

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6, melt breccia)

Physical characteristics: Brown stone. Cut face reveals a breccia with gray clasts in a black matrix.

Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Melt-supported breccia, with clasts of type 6 ordinary chondrite.

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6-melt breccia)

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Antofagasta
Date:2018 Apr 14
Latitude:24°13'13.2"S
Longitude:70°18'22.1"W
Mass (g):7750
Pieces:2
Class:L6-melt breccia
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):25.0 (n=1)
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.3 (n=2)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.5
Magnetic suscept.:4.73
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):33
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:MMC
Finder:Rodrigo Martinez, Andrew Trench
Comments:work name RM652; submitted by Jérôme Gattacceca
Institutions
   and collections
CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
MMC: Museo del Meteorito, Tocopilla 401, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. or Alonso de Ercilla 1250, La Herradura, Coquimbo, Chile, Chile; Website (institutional address; updated 11 Mar 2014)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Chile
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (24° 13' 13"S, 70° 18' 22"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 3417 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 3446 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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