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| Basic information | Name: Techado This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1983 Country: United States Mass:  810 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 17 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIE. [show all] Search for other: IIE 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 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. | ||||||||||||||||
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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 228 approved meteorites from New Mexico, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1934 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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