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| Basic information | Name: Renfrow This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1986 Country: United States Mass:  81.6 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 13053 approved meteorites (plus 11 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 81:
Renfrow Grant County, Oklahoma, USA Found ca. 1986, recognized 1995 Ordinary chondrite (L6) An 81.6 kg stone was found while terracing a previously unfarmed hillside. Mineralogy (J. Clark, ASU) and classification (A. Rubin, UCLA): olivine, Fa23.5–24.9; shock stage S5; contains 60 mm grains of maskelynite. Specimens: approximately one-half of main mass, Reed; approximately one-half of main mass, Cilz; type specimen, UCLA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
ASU: Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1404, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 14 Jan 2012) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) Cilz: Marlin Cilz, Montana Meteorite Lab, Box 1063, Malta, MT 59538, United States; Website (private address) Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43 approved meteorites from Oklahoma, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1934 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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