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| Basic information | Name: Monahans (1998) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1998 Country: United States Mass:  2.59 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 82:
Monahans (1998) Ward County, Texas, USA Fell 1998 22 March, 18:48 CST Ordinary chondrite (H5) Two stones, weighing 1344 g and 1243 g, fell in the city of Monahans, Texas, after two sonic booms and a fireball were observed over a wide area (up to 100 km from the fall site). One stone penetrated the asphalt on a city street and was found in the sandy subsurface. Classification and mineralogy (M. Zolensky and G. Lofgren, JSC): a light-dark breccia, with light and black clasts in a gray-colored, pulverized host matrix; olivine, Fa18.8 (host); pyroxene, Fs17.1Wo1.4 (host); plagioclase, An1–19Ab70–75Or6–29 (all lithologies);shock stage S2 (light clasts) to S4 (black clasts); the gray-colored matrix material contains blue crystals of indigenous halite and sylvite, some up to 3 mm in diameter, some euhedral. Specimens: both masses are owned by the City of Monahans, contact the City Manager; type specimen, 20 g, contact Dr. Everett Gibson, JSC. The iron meteorite (group IIF) that was found south of Monahans, Texas, in 1938 will be designated henceforth as Monahans (1938). | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
JSC: Mailcode XI, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Jul 2022) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 317 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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