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| Basic information | Name: Suwanee Spring This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1979 Country: United States Mass:  1200 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 7131 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 58:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE SUWANEE SPRING, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: SUWANEE SPRING Place of find: Valencia County, New Mexico, USA. 34°57'N., 107010'W. Date of find: July 21, 1979. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L5). Olivine Fa24.6; orthopyroxene Fs20.8; plagioclase An9.0Or[illegible],. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 1.2 kg, approximately. Circumstances of find: Found about 40 km west of Albuquerque by Mr. George Nelson in a region where wind had stripped away the soil. The Correo (H4) chondrite was found in the same area. Source: A.E. Rubin et a.l, 1980. The Correo and Suwanee Spring Meteorites: two new ordinary chondrite finds. Submitted to Meteoritics. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 58, Meteoritics 15, 235-240 (1980)
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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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