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| Basic information | Name: Griffith This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1985 Country: United States Mass:  6 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 146 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, ungrouped. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Ungrouped irons | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 85:
Griffith Cochran County, Texas, USA Found 1985, summer Iron, ataxite (ungrouped) A ~6 kg (~13 pound) iron meteorite was found by Daniel de los Santos while he was hoeing in a cotton field. Description (T. McCoy and R. Clarke, SI) and classification (J. Wasson, UCLA): bulk metal composition, Co = 0.73 wt%, Ni = 14.3 wt%, Ga = 0.3 ppm, As = 0.2 ppm, Ir = 10 ppm, Au = 0.06 ppm; composition is similar to group IVB. Specimens: main mass, O. Barrera, 609 SW 2nd St., Morton, Texas 79346, USA; type specimen, 120 g, contact M. Gower, TxTech; 83 g plus polished section, SI. | ||||||||||||||||
| 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) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) TxTech: Geoscience Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 313 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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