The Meteoritical Bulletin,No. 101 |
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| Authors: | Alex Ruzicka Jeffrey Grossman Audrey Bouvier Christopher D K Herd Carl B Agee |
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| Institution: | 1. Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Department of Geology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA;2. NASA Headquarters, Washington, District of Columbia, USA;3. Department of Earth Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada;4. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;5. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
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| Abstract: | Meteoritical Bulletin 101 contains 2639 meteorites accepted by the Nomenclature Committee in 2012, including 1 fall (Battle Mountain), with 2308 ordinary chondrites, 156 carbonaceous chondrites, 63 HED achondrites, 17 relict meteorites, 16 Rumuruti chondrites, 15 enstatite chondrites, 15 ureilites, 10 iron meteorites, 9 lunar meteorites, 9 primitive achondrites, 8 ungrouped achondrites, 7 mesosiderites, 4 Martian meteorites, and 2 Pallasites, and with 1812 from Antarctica, 437 from Asia, 301 from Africa, 43 from South America, 21 from Europe (including Russia), 21 from North America, 3 from Oceania, and 1 from unknown. Information about approved meteorites can be obtained from the Meteoritical Bulletin Database (MBD) available on line at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/ . |
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