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| 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:  3 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 103 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, Ordinary chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 52:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. 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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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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