Meteorites found on Misfits Flat dry lake, Nevada. (16th March 2016)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Meteorites found on Misfits Flat dry lake, Nevada. (16th March 2016)
- Main Title:
- Meteorites found on Misfits Flat dry lake, Nevada
- Authors:
- Harlan, Scott
Jenniskens, Peter
Zolensky, Michael E.
Yin, Qing‐Zhu
Verosub, Kenneth L.
Rowland, Douglas J.
Sanborn, Matthew
Huyskens, Magdalena
Creager, Emily R.
Jull, A. J. Timothy - Abstract:
- Abstract: Meteorites have been found on the small Misfits Flat dry lakebed near Stagecoach, Nevada (119.382W, +39.348N). Since the first find on Sept. 22, 2013, a total of 58 stones of weathering stage W2/3 with a combined mass of 339 g have been collected in 19 visits to the area. This small (3.3 × 3.6 km) lakebed is now a newly designated dense collection area (DCA). Most meteorites were found in a small 350 × 180 m area along the north shore and most are fragments of several broken individual stones. Three of these fragments were classified as an LL4/5 of shock stage S2, now named Misfits Flat 001, one of which (stone MF33) fell 8.1 ± 1.3 ka ago based on the 14 C terrestrial age, assuming it came from a 20–80 cm diameter meteoroid. In addition, a small darkly crusted meteorite MF34, now named Misfits Flat 002, was found 820 m WSW from the main mass. This meteorite is classified as an LL5 ordinary chondrite with shock stage S4/5. The meteorite is saturated in 14 C at 63 dpm kg −1, suggesting it originated from the center of a 0.5 m diameter meteoroid, or deep inside a ~1.0 m meteoroid, less than 300 yr ago. Accounts exist of a fireball seen at 13:15 UT on March 2, 1895, that are consistent with the find location of Misfits Flat 002.
- Is Part Of:
- Meteoritics & planetary science. Volume 51:Number 4(2016:Apr.)
- Journal:
- Meteoritics & planetary science
- Issue:
- Volume 51:Number 4(2016:Apr.)
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- Volume 51, Issue 4 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0051-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 757
- Page End:
- 772
- Publication Date:
- 2016-03-16
- Subjects:
- Meteorites -- Periodicals
Planetology -- Periodicals
523.4 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1945-5100 ↗
http://www.uark.edu/%7Emeteor/ ↗
http://www.uark.edu/meteor/ ↗
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/tocservice.html ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/maps.12619 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1086-9379
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