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| Basic information | Name: Calico Rock This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1938 Country: United States Mass:  7.28 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 148 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 33:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF CALICO ROCK IRON METEORITE, USA Name: CALICO ROCK. The place of fall or discovery: Calico Rock, Arkansas, USA. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, in the spring of 1938; brought to scientific notice in 1964. Class and type: IRON, hexahedrite (normal). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 7275 gr; dimensions 9 cm X 9 cm X 15 cm. Circumstances of fall or discovery: The meteorite was found by A. Harmon. Source: Report of Dr. R. A. Oriti (Los Angeles, USA) in a letter, X.11 1964. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Calico Rock 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. 33, Moscow (1965)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 15 approved meteorites from Arkansas, United States This is 1 of 1895 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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