Flora, and the whole Flora family generally, are good candidates for being the parent bodies of the L chondrite meteorites.
The Atoka meteorite is an L6 meteorite which was observed to fall to earth near Atoka, Oklahoma, in 1945.
The meteorite was officially named "Deal" and it was classified as an ordinary chondrite L.
The Flora family members are considered good candidates for being the parent bodies of the L chondrite meteorites (Nesvorny 2002), which contribute about 38% of all meteorites impacting the Earth.
Core samples have shown it to have been formed by the impact of an L chondrite asteroid.
Like all L chondrites NWA 3009 probably comes from the asteroid Eros which may have collided millions of years ago with another fragment in the asteroid belt.
The Ordovician meteor event is a proposed shower of L chondrite meteors that occurred during the Middle Ordovician period, roughly 470 million years ago.
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