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Tungsten Mountain 011
Basic information Name: Tungsten Mountain 011
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: TM 011
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: United States
Mass:help 186.5 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 97  (2010)  CV3
Recommended:  CV3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 602 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as CV3.   [show all]
Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 3), CV chondrites, and CV-CK clan chondrites
Comments: Approved 22 Dec 2009
Data from:
  MB97
  Table 2
  Line 8:
State/Prov/County:Churchill County, Nevada, USA
Origin or pseudonym:Dry Lake
Date:August 19, 2003
Latitude:39°41'N
Longitude:117°37'W
Mass (g):186.52
Pieces:4
Class:CV3
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):7.3-23.3
Classifier:Rubin, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):21.7
Type spec location:UCLA
Main mass:Nicholas Gessler
Comments:21.7 g to UCLA (1.07, 6.24 and 14.39 from 3 pieces). 164.83 g with Nicholas Gessler (18.41 and 146.42 from 2 pieces).
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)
Gessler: Nicholas Gessler, 2010 Calgary Lane, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States (private address; updated 7 Jul 2016)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 97, MAPS 45, 449-493 (2010)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (39° 41'N, 117° 37'W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 158 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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