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| Basic information | Name: Twin City This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1955 Country: United States Mass:  5.13 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 68 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-ung. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 8:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. THE TWIN CITY IRON METEORTE Name: TWIN CITY. The place of fall or discovery: 15 km east of Twin City Emanuel County, Georgia, U. S. A. φ = 32°35' N; λ=92°01' W. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, 1955 Class and type: iron; nickel-rich ataxite. The number of separate specimens: one fragment. Total weight: preserved 5.13 kg. The circumstances of fall or discovery: The meteorite was picked up at the time the scraping of the road. It was considerably weathered. The meteorite was found to consist of large pieces-"grains". A preliminary chemical analysis shows that this meteorite contains 29.91 percent Ni and 0.51 percent Co. The sulphur and phosphor, is 0.046 and 0.34 percent respectively. Chemically this meteorite is similar to the Lime Creek meteorite which contained 31.06 percent Ni. The main mass of the Twin City meteorite is preserved in the collections of Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, of Atlanta. Source: The paper: E.P. Henderson and A.S. Furcron. "Meteorites in Georgia". Georgia Mineral Newsletter, published by the Georgia Geological Survey. Vol. X, No.4, 1957, 137-141. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Twin City 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. 8, Moscow (1958)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 26 approved meteorites from Georgia, United States This is 1 of 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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