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| Basic information | Name: Anoka This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1961 Country: United States Mass:  1108 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-sLM. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 32:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF ANOKA IRON METEORITE, USA Name: ANOKA. The place of fall or discovery: Anoka County, Minnesota, USA; φ = 45'12'N, λ = 93°26' W. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, 1961; recognized 1963. Class and type: IRON, fine octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 1.108 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: --- Source: In Report of Dr. Glenn I. Huss (Denver, USA) in a letter IX.21 1964. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Anoka 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. 32, Moscow (1964)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites from Minnesota, United States This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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