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| Basic information | Name: Garrison This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: United States Mass:  5.12 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11284 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE GARRISON, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: GARRISON Place of find: Roosevelt County, New Mexico, USA. 33°51'48"N., 103°20'48"W. Date of find: 1969 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite. Olivine Fa18. Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 5.1 kg Circumstances of find: One stone of 792.8 g was found during ploughing in 1969. The second stone, 4323 g, was found about three miles from the find site of the first. Source: G.I Huss, 1976. The Huss Coll. of Meteorites, p. 20, American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA, and priv. comm., 1978. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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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 1896 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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