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| Basic information | Name: Carver This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1935 Country: United States Mass:  94 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 150 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 37:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. ALABAMA (D3), USA, exact locality unknown; approx. φ = 32° N, λ = 86° W. Recognized 1957. IRON, ataxite. 9477 gr. in Inst. Meteor., Univ. New Mexico, USA. Writeup from MB 59: Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE CARVER, USA, IRON METEORITE Name: CARVER Synonym: Alabama Place of find: Macon County, Alabama, USA. 32°30'N., 85°30'W., approximately. Date of find: 1930-1940 Class and type: Iron. Hexahedrite (IIA). 5.5% Ni, 58.7 ppm Ga, 184 ppm Ge, 12 ppm. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 94 kg (207 lb) Circumstances of find: On display as a meteorite (but unnamed) in the Carver Museum, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA. Apparently the specimen was brought to the Museum by a farmer from Macon County in the 1930's. Given the name Carver in 1969 (L. LaPaz, 1969). 9.4 kg in the Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico. Sources: L. LaPaz, 1969. The Carver Meteorite. University of New Mexico Publications, Topics in Meteoritics, no. 8, 155. See also A. Kracher, J. Willis and J.T. Wasson, 1980. Chemical classification of iron meteorites-IX. A new group (IIF), revision of IAB and IIICD, and data on 57 additional irons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 44, 773. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 37, Moscow (1966) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 59, Meteoritics 16, 193-199 (1981)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 18 approved meteorites from Alabama, United States (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1896 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Alabama (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||||||