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Two Buttes (b)
Basic information Name: Two Buttes (b)
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1970
Country: United States
Mass:help 3 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 52  (1974)  Chondrite
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H
Recommended:  H    [explanation]

This is 1 of 103 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, Ordinary chondrites
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Writeup from MB 52:
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DISCOVERY OF THE TWO BUTTES (b), COLORADO, STONY METEORITE

Name: TWO BUTTES (b)

Place of find: Two Buttes, Baca County, Colorado.

37°38'N, 102°25'W.

Date of find: 1970

Class and type: Stone. Chondrite.

Number of individual specimens: 1

Total weight: 3 kg

Circumstances of find: Found lying under a fence when a farmer was repairing a broken wire.

Mr. Huss feels that this individual represents a separate fall from the previously reported Two Buttes (subsequently to be known as Two Buttes(a)) specimen. This area of Colorado is devoid of place names.

Source: Glenn I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, P.O. Box 2098, Denver, Colorado 80201.

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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 52, Meteoritics 9, 101-121 (1974)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (37° 38'N, 102° 25'W)
     Recommended::   (37° 38'N, 102° 25'W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 90 approved meteorites from Colorado, United States (plus 5 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 1896 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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