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| Basic information | Name: Ellicott This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1960 Country: United States Mass:  15.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 68 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-ung. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ELLICOTT, COLORADO, IRON METEORITE Name: ELLICOTT Place of find: On Mr. Floyd Thompson's ranch, about 16 km W of Ellicott, El Paso County, Colorado, U.S.A. 38°48'28"N, 104°34'10"W. Date of find: Around 1960; recognized 1973. Class and type: Iron. Medium octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 15.7 kg Circumstances of find: One piece was found in a dry creek bed, and the second about a year later in a shallow soil horizon exposed by flood erosion of the creek bank. Source: Edward J. Olsen, Glenn I Huss and Richard M. Pearl. 1974. The Ellicott meteorite. Meteoritics 9, 263-269. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 90 approved meteorites from Colorado, United States (plus 5 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1919 approved meteorites from United States (plus 867 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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