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| Basic information | Name: Gay Gulch This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1901 Country: Canada Mass:  483 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-sHH. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 68:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Changes of name At the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society, held in Vienna, Austria, on 31 July 1989, the following name changes were agreed: The iron meteorites known as Klondike (Gay Gulch) and Klondike (Skookum Gulch) should now be referred to as Gay Gulch and Skookum. See V. F. Buchwald, A Handbook of Iron Meteorites, University of California Press, 1975, p. 582, 1137. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Gay Gulch in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 68, Meteoritics 25, 59-70 (1990)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Yukon Territory, Canada This is 1 of 67 approved meteorites from Canada (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 31 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Clondike (In NHM Cat) Dawson (In NHM Cat) Klondike (In NHM Cat) Klondike (Gay Gulch) (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||