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Grosvenor Mountains 95542
Basic information Name: Grosvenor Mountains 95542
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: GRO 95542
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1995
Country: Antarctica [Collected by US Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET)]
Mass:help 277 g
Classification
  history:
Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:  AMN 20(2)  (1997)  L3
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 82  (1998)  L3
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L3
Recommended:  L3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB82
  Table A1
  Line 176:
Origin or pseudonym:Outer Cecily
Mass (g):276.7
Class:L3
Weathering grade:A/B
Comments:95502 pairing group
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References: Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 20(2) (1997), JSC, Houston
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Antarctica
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (85° 40'S, 175° 0'E)
     Recommended::   (85° 40'S, 175° 0'E)

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     This is 1 of 40744 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 4494 unapproved names)
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