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El Médano 485
Basic information Name: El Médano 485
     This is NOT an official name: Discredited meteorite.
Abbreviation: EM 485
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: Chile
Mass:help 2.2 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 110  (2022)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

Comments: Entered 11 Nov 2021
Revised 29 Jan 2024: Duplicate of EM 435
Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Antofagasta
Date:2017 nov 15
Latitude:24°39.363'S
Longitude:70°18.000'W
Mass (g):2.2
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):25.24±0.44 (N=15)
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.30±0.26 (N=12)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.56±0.35 (N=12)
Magnetic suscept.:4.40
Classifier:Béatrice Doisneau (MNHNP), Emmanuel Jacquet (MNHNP)
Type spec mass (g):2.2
Type spec location:MNHNP
Main mass:MNHNP
Finder:Matthieu Gounelle
Comments:Field name: DM063; submitted by B. Doisneau
Institutions
   and collections		 MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address)
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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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