DISCOVERY OF THE TECHADO, USA, IRON METEORITE

Name: TECHADO

Place of find: About 6 km SE. of Techado, Catron County, New Mexico, USA.

34°32'N., 108°21'W.

Date of find: May 6, 1977

Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite, medium (IIE). 8.9% Ni, 23.2 ppm Ga, 70.2 ppm Ge and 4.9 ppm Ir.

Number of individual

specimens: 1

Total weight: 810 g

Circumstances of find: Found by Kitty and Richard A. Renwick during the excavation of a pre-historic American Indian pueblo (circa 1150 A.D.). The major portion of the mass is at the Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Source: R.H. Weber, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA, and J.T. Wasson, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA.