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| Basic information | Name: Tulia (b) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1917 Country: United States Mass:  4.8 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12583 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 61:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE TULIA (b), USA, STONY METEORITE Name: TULIA (b) Place of find: Swisher County, Texas, USA. 34°32'N., 101°42'W. Date of find: 1917, recognized 1982 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Number of individual specimens: 2, plus others Total weight: 2153 g, plus Circumstances of find: Collected by H. Nininger in 1917 and obtained from him by the Field Museum, Chicago, in 1940. Found to be distinct from the Tulia originally reported as an H5 chondrite. Source: E. Olsen, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Note: The original Tulia should now be called Tulia (a). Specimens in collections labelled Tulia may be Tulia (b). Tulia (a) as described by C. Palache and J.T. Lonsdale, Am. J. Sci., 1927, 13, 353, has been reclassified as H3-4, A.L. Graham, priv. comm. 1982. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 61, Meteoritics 18, 77-83 (1983)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 314 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1919 approved meteorites from United States (plus 867 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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