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| Basic information | Name: Happy Canyon This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Country: United States Mass:  16.3 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is the only approved meteorite classified as EL6/7. Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), and Enstatite-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 54:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPY CANYON, TEXAS, STONY METEORITE Name: HAPPY CANYON Place of find: Near the head of Happy Canyon, Armstrong County, Texas, USA. 34°48.1'N, 101°34'W. Date of find: 1971 Class and type: Stone. Enstatite chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: About 16.3 kg Circumstances of find: The specimen was plowed up on the R.L. Grigsby farm about 2 km northwest of Wayside, Texas in 1971. It was cut and a section removed from its center. The whereabouts of this section is not certain, and the original weight of the complete specimen was reported as 16.3 kg. Source: Glenn I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, P. O. Box 2098, Denver, Colorado 80201. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 54, Meteoritics 11, 69-93 (1976)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 314 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1896 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Wayside (b) (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||