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Nazareth (iron) | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Nazareth (iron) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1968 Country: United States Mass: 11.31 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 341 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 65:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. See also Nazareth (b)
DISCOVERY OF THE NAZARETH (IRON), TEXAS, METEORITE Name: NAZARETH (IRON) Synonym: Nazareth (b) Place of find: 4.5 mi northwest of Nazareth, Castro County, Texas. 34° 31.6'N, 102° 06.3'W. Date of find: Fall of 1968 Class and type: Iron. Medium octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 11.31 kg Circumstances of find: The meteorite was discovered during the breaking out of a new quarter section of sod on the Elmer Schulte farm. Source: R. Gooley, C. F. Lewis, C. B. Moore and Glenn I. Huss (1971) The Nazareth (b) meteorite. Meteoritics 6, 93-98. | ||||||||||||||||
Buchwald | The following entries were found for Nazareth (iron) 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. 65, Meteoritics 22, 157-163 (1987)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 316 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1925 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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Nazareth (b) (In NHM Cat) |