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| Basic information | Name: Roundup This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1990 Country: United States Mass:  17.59 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 351 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 70:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Roundup Roundup, Montana, USA Found 1990 Iron. Medium octahedrite (IIIAB) A single mass of 17.6 kg was found. Classification and analysis, 8.46% Ni, 21.2 ppm Ga, <160 ppm Ge, 0.866 ppm Ir, John T. Wasson, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024-1567, USA. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 70, Meteoritics 26, 68-69 (1991)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 7 approved meteorites from Montana, United States (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1935 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||
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