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| Basic information | Name: Forestburg (b) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1957 Country: United States Mass:  26.6 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6534 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. [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:
Forestburg (b) Montague County, Texas, USA Found 1957 Ordinary chondrite (L5) A 26.6 kg stone was found in a dry creek bed by Mr. Willard Free-man; the stone may have been transported by water. The 26.1 kg meteorite called Forestburg in Graham et al. (1985) is now classi-fied as an L4 chondrite (shock stage S2, weathering grade W4) and will be designated henceforth as Forestburg (a); these two L chon-drites are not paired. Mineralogy and classification of Forestburg (b) (T. J. McCoy, SI; A. J. Ehlmann, TCU): olivine, Fa25.8; py-roxene, Fs21.6; shock stage S5, weathering grade W1; the chondrite is shock blackened and contains impact melt clasts. See McCoy and Ehlmann (1996) for details. Specimens: TCU. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
SI: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012) TCU: Oscar E. Monnig Collection, Department of Geology, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, TX 76129, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 24 Feb 2012) |
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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 311 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1834 approved meteorites from United States (plus 358 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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