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| Basic information | Name: Hot Springs This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1995 Country: United States Mass:  4.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 338 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 81:
Hot Springs Churchill County, Nevada, USA Found 1995 March 8 Iron, medium octahedrite (IIIAB) A mass of 4.7 kg was found by Mr. F. Keiper, who had been dirt biking in a steep canyon. Description and classification (D. A. Kring, UAz; J. T. Wasson, UCLA): bulk composition, 7.77 wt% Ni, 18.2 ppm Ga, 4.66 ppm As, 0.716 ppm Au; bandwidth 0.97 mm; well-preserved fusion crust and little weathering. Specimens: main mass, UNR; type specimen, 61.6 g, ASU; 57 g, UCLA; 21.7 g, SI. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
ASU: Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1404, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 14 Jan 2012) 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) UAz: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, 1629 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721, United States (institutional address; updated 14 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) UNR: Fleischmann Planetarium, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, United States (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 158 approved meteorites from Nevada, United States (plus 4 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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