| MetSoc Home Publications Contacts |
|
||
|
||
| Elba | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic information | Name: Elba This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1966 Country: United States Mass:  4.18 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10189 approved meteorites (plus 18 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H 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 ELBA COLORADO, STONY METEORITE Name: ELBA Place of find: Elba, Washington County, Colorado. 39° 50'N, 103° 13'W. Date of find: Summer of 1966 Class and type: Stone. Chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 4,175 g Circumstances of find: One-half of an oriented individual was plowed up in a field. It broke either late in flight or upon striking the earth, as the broken surface showed no fusion crust. It was recognized as a meteorite in 1967. Source: Glenn I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201. | ||||||||||||||||
| Catalogs: |
| ||||||||||||||||
| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
| ||||||||||||||||
| Photos: |
| ||||||||||||||||
Geography:
|
Statistics: This is 1 of 90 approved meteorites from Colorado, United States (plus 5 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1865 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
| Proximity search: | |||||||||||||||||