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| Basic information | Name: Gaylord This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1983 Country: United States Mass:  8.48 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6493 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 66:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Gaylord Smith County, Kansas, USA Found August 1983 Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4). A single 8.48 kg mass was found E of Gaylord in a ploughed field by Phillip E. Hager. The specimen is now in the Sternberg Memorial Museum, Fort Hays, Kansas, USA. (T. E. Schmidt, Tiara Observatory, P.O. Box 1059, Colorado Springs, CO 80901, USA; G. L. Millhollen, Geology Depart., Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas 67601, USA) | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 66, Meteoritics 23, 171-173 (1988)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 147 approved meteorites from Kansas, United States (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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