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Tule Valley Hardpan 003
Basic information Name: Tule Valley Hardpan 003
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: TVH 003
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: United States
Mass:help 10.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 11505 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 19 Aug 2013
Data from:
  MB102
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Utah
Origin or pseudonym:shoreline (playa), North-end of Ibex Fla
Date:2007 May 12
Latitude:38°58.349'N
Longitude:113°22.381'W
Mass (g):10.7
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):18.3±0.9 (n=5)
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.9±0.2; Ca-pyx: 10.3
Wollastonite (mol%):1.2±0.1 (n=13); Ca-pyx: 25.7 (n=1)
Classifier:A. Rubin UCLA
Type spec mass (g):4.2 + thin-section
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Verish
Finder:Beth Verish
Comments:one-half individual stone; field ID = (UT70)512A; submitted by R. Verish
Institutions
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UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
Verish: Robert Verish, Meteorite-Recovery Lab, P.O. Box 463084, Escondido, CA 92046, United States; Website (private address; updated 27 May 2009)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (38° 58' 21"N, 113° 22' 23"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 27 approved meteorites from Utah, United States (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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