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Pampa de Mejillones 001
Basic information Name: Pampa de Mejillones 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: PdM 001
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1999
Country: Chile
Mass:help 635 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 100  (2012)  L5
Recommended:  L5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 8641 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 21 Nov 2011
Data from:
  MB100
  Table 1
  Line 1730:
State/Prov/County:Antofagasta
Origin or pseudonym:deflation surface
Date:June 1999
Latitude:23°09'23.0"S
Longitude:70°28'28.5"W
Mass (g):635
Pieces:1
Class:L5
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):24.0
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.1
Classifier:M. Zolensky
Type spec mass (g):20
Type spec location:SI
Main mass:Rodrigo Martínez
Finder:Rodrigo Martínez
Comments:field name Pampa H; submitted by P. Rochette and M. Valenzuela
Institutions
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SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Geography:

Chile
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (23° 9' 23"S, 70° 28' 28"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2908 approved meteorites from Antofagasta, Chile (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 2937 approved meteorites from Chile (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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