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| Basic information | Name: Roosevelt County 070 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: RC 070 Observed fall: No Year found: 1989 Country: United States Mass:  2.3 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 8831 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 69:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Roosevelt County 066-070 New Mexico, USA Found 1988-1989 Stones. Ordinary chondrites Five heavily weathered stones were recovered by Ivan E. Wilson from deflation surfaces in T2S R33E S33 of Roosevelt County. Classification and analysis, A. Pun, T. J. McCoy, K. Keil and I. E. Wilson, Meteoritics, in press (thin sections UNM 938, 953, 954, 955, 964, used for classification are in the collection of the Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Geology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA). | ||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB69 Table 4 Line 5: |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 69, Meteoritics 25, 237-239 (1990)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 228 approved meteorites from New Mexico, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1919 approved meteorites from United States (plus 867 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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