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| Basic information | Name: Roosevelt County 071 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: RC 071 Observed fall: No Year found: 1989 Country: United States Mass:  5.3 g | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 1709 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L4. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 72:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Roosevelt County 071-074 New Mexico, USA Found 1989-1990 Stones. Ordinary chondrites Four heavily weathered stones were found by I. E. Wilson on deflation surfaces in Roosevelt County. Information, classification and analysis, Tim J. McCoy, Planetary Geosciences Division, University of Hawaii, Honolulu , Hawaii 96822, USA, where also the thin sections UH-1, 2, 37, 70, used for classification are deposited. Main masses are in the possession of the finder. RC 071 and 072 do not seem to be paired with other RC meteorites, based on petrographic criteria and proximity of find site. No attempt was made to find possible pairings of RC 073 and 074 with other RC meteorites. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 72, Meteoritics 27, 109-117 (1992)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 226 approved meteorites from New Mexico, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1865 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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