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| Basic information | Name: Walnut Hill This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1978 Country: United States Mass:  220 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 75 approved meteorites (plus 3 unapproved names) classified as OC. [show all] Search for other: Ordinary chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 75:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Walnut Hill North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, USA Found 1978 October Ordinary chondrite Mark L. Smith noticed a hole in the roof of a shed while repairing it; he then found a stone of 220 g in the interior of the shed. The entire mass is retained by the finder, who will not permit it to be sampled for further analysis. Classified as ordinary chondrite from examination of a broken surface by Carl A. Francis, Harvard University Mineralogical Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. The meteorite was described with photographs in the Portland (Maine) Evening Express of 1978 October 20. David S. Westerman published a note about it in the Maine Geologist 5 (1978). A Note is also included in the chapter "Maine Meteorites" by C. A. Francis in "Mineralogy of Maine" to be published by the Geoloical Survey of Maine. Information, Carl A. Francis. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 75, Meteoritics 28, 692-703 (1993)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites from Maine, United States This is 1 of 1894 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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