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| Basic information | Name: Paneth's Iron This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1873 Country: (unknown) Mass:  150 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 15 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IIIE. [show all] Search for other: IIIE irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. IDENTIFICATION OF PANETHS IRON Name: PANETH'S IRON Place of find: Not known. Date of find: Not known. Class and type: Iron. Coarse octahedrite (III E). Number of individual specimens: 3 Total weight: 54.5 kg Circumstances of find: Not known. The three slices, now in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), the Institute of Geological Sciences (London), and the Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie (Mainz), were evidently cut from a single mass, which passed through the hands of the London dealer/collector, John Frederick Calvert (1811-1897). Source: V. F. Buchwald, R. Hutchison, and J. M. Hall. 1974. Paneth's Iron, a new Group IIIE iron. Meteoritics 9, 307-311. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Paneth's 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. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 34 approved meteorites from (unknown) (plus 15 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||