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Lucerne Valley 017 | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Lucerne Valley 017 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: LV 017 Observed fall: No Year found: 1999 Country: United States Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11471 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
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Writeup from MB 84:
Lucerne Valley Meteorites, new classifications (Two meteorites) San Bernardino County, California, USA Found 1963 to 1999 Two meteorites listed in Meteoritical Bulletin 83 have now been classified by A. Rubin (UCLA). Lucerne Valley 002: class, LL4; shock stage, S2, weathering grade, W3; olivine, Fa27.5±0.6. Lucerne Valley 017: class, L6; shock stage, S3; weathering grade, W4; Fa25.5±0.6. Neither meteorite can be paired with certainty to any other find from this region. | ||||||||||||||||
Data from: MB83 Table 4 Line 17: |
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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) Hartman: The R. N. Hartman Collection, 20687-2 Amar Rd., Walnut, CA 91789 , United States; Website (private address) |
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 83, MAPS 34, A169-A186 (1999) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 84, MAPS 35, A199-A225 (2000)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 263 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1865 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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