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| Basic information | Name: Red Rock This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 Country: United States Mass:  47.6 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 62:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE RED ROCK, USA, IRON METEORITE Name: RED ROCK Place of find: Near Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, California, USA. 35°25'N., 117°55'W. Date of find: 1976, approximately Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite, medium (1.1 mm). Group IIIA. 7.71 % Ni, 21.6 ppm Ga, 41.8 ppm Ge, 2.1 ppm Ir. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 47.5 kg Circumstances of find: Found about 1976 by R.K. Haag while hunting for rabbits. Entire mass purchased by the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Source: J. T. Wasson, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 62, Meteoritics 19, 49-57 (1984)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 269 approved meteorites from California, United States (plus 24 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||
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