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| Basic information | Name: Floyd This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1966 Country: United States Mass:  13 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 2008 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L4. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 51:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE FLOYD, NEW MEXICO, STONY METEORITE Name: FLOYD Place of find: Floyd, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. 34° 11' 36"N, 103° 34' 30"W. Date of find: 1966 Class and type: Stone. Chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 13 kg Circumstances of find: Found lying under a barbed wire fence by an Indian artifact hunter. It was recognized as a meteorite in 1967. Source: Glenn I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 228 approved meteorites from New Mexico, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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