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| Basic information | Name: Wolsey This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1981 Country: United States Mass:  74.83 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 120 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-MG. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 71:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Wolsey Beadle County, South Dakota, USA Found 1980-81, recognized 1990 Iron. Coarse Octahedrite (IAB) A single mass weighing 74.8 kg was ploughed up in a corn field by Bruce Eichstadt. Classification and analysis, Ni 6.6%, Ir 4.6 ppm, Ga 85 ppm, Ge 450 ppm, John T. Wasson, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles 900241567, USA. Information and main mass Marlin D. Cilz, Box 1063, Malta, Montana 59538, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 71, Meteoritics 26, 255-262 (1991)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 19 approved meteorites from South Dakota, United States This is 1 of 1893 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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