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| Basic information | Name: Kress (a) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1951 Country: United States Mass:  12.5 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11044 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 51:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE KRESS, TEXAS, STONY METEORITE Name: KRESS Place of find: Kress, Swisher County, Texas. 101° 43' 48"N, 34° 21' 30"W. Date of find: Possibly 1951 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 4.3 kg Circumstance of find: One semi-oriented specimen with relatively fresh black fusion crust was plowed up in a field. It lay in a farm yard until it was recognized as a meteorite in 1966. Source: Glenn I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 312 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1836 approved meteorites from United States (plus 358 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Kress (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||