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| Basic information | Name: Willard (b) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1934 or 1933 Country: United States Mass:  12.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 43 approved meteorites classified as H3.6. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 81:
Willard (b) Torrance County, New Mexico, USA Fell (?) 1933 August, found 1934 ca. March. Ordinary chondrite (H3) A senior citizen remembers a brilliant fireball and sonic boom around 1933 August. He recovered a single stone of 12.7 kg in a field south of the town of Willard the next spring. Classification and mineralogy (M. Prinz, AMNH): olivine, Fa7–27, mode at Fa19–21; pyroxene, predominantly En81Wo1.2–1.6, chondrule boundaries vague, indicating high type 3; some parts are equilibrated; contains angular, dark clasts. Induced thermoluminescence (TL) (P. Benoit and D. Sears, UArk): sensitivity, 0.17–0.02; temp., 186 °C; peak width, 132 mm; TL gives petrologic type 3.5–3.6. Specimens: main mass, Farrell; type specimen, 56 g, AMNH. This meteorite receives the designation Willard (b); the L6 chondrite from the same locality, found in 1978 (Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 62, 1984), shall be designated henceforth Willard (a). | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
AMNH: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, United States (institutional address; updated 18 May 2013) UArk: Cosmochemistry Group, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, United States (institutional address; updated 16 Oct 2011) Farrell: Ron Farrell, Bethany Sciences, P.O. Box 3726, New Haven, CT 06525, United States; Website (private address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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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 1927 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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