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| Basic information | Name: Mayerthorpe This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1964 Country: Canada Mass:  12.61 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 82 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IAB complex. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 32:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF MAYERTHORPE IRON METEORITE, CANADA Name: MAYERTHORPE. The place of fall or discovery: 16 km south-south-east of the town of Mayerthorpe, Alberta, Canada; φ = 53°46 1/2' N, λ = 115°02' W. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, September 1964. Class and type: IRON, believed to be an octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 8.74 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was found by M. Dmitroca in the course of cultivating a field. Two earlier finds of iron meteorites in the neighbouring fields have been lost, but suggest that Mayerthorpe may have been a shower. The known specimen shows excellent regmaglypts, some surface oxidation suggesting an old fall. The specimen has been acquired for the University of Alberta and National meteorite collections. Source: Report of Dr. R. E. Folinsbee (Edmonton, Canada) in a letter, IX.28 1964. Writeup from MB 33: Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Prof. R. E. Folinsbee (Edmonton, Canada) in a letter, X.7 1964 reported about the find in 1964 of a second individual from the Mayerthorpe iron meteorite, weighing 3870 gr. in 1964. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Mayerthorpe 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. 32, Moscow (1964) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 33, Moscow (1965)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 18 approved meteorites from Alberta, Canada (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 67 approved meteorites from Canada (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 31 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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