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| Basic information | Name: Brownell This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Country: United States Mass:  2 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12058 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 63:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE BROWNELL, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: BROWNELL Place of find: Ness County, Kansas, USA. 38°41'48"N., 99°42'30"W. Date of find: 1971, approximately. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa25.2. Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 2 kg, approximately. Circumstances of find: One mass of 1108 g was found at the middle west boundary of the NW. 1/4, sec. 6, T17S, R21W. The second stone, weighing just over 900 g, was found 1.8 km NE. of this between 1970 and 1972. Source: A.E. Rubin and W.F. Read, 1984. The Brownell and Ness County (1894) L6 chondrites. Further sorting out of the Ness County meteorites. Meteoritics 19, 153. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 63, Meteoritics 20, 275-283 (1985)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 147 approved meteorites from Kansas, United States (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1885 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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