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| Basic information | Name: Owasco This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1984 Country: United States Mass:  168.4 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12478 approved meteorites (plus 8 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 63:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE OWASCO, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: OWASCO Place of find: Kimball County, Nebraska, USA. 41°12'N., 103°41'W. Date of find: 1984 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa24.5. Number of individual specimens: 15 Total weight: 168.4 kg Circumstances of find: Found by a farmer in the same field as the OLIVER stone. Much more terrestrially weathered than OLIVER. The OWASCO specimens have no fusion crust and are highly shocked. Source: G.I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, P.O. Box 2098, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 63, Meteoritics 20, 275-283 (1985)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 50 approved meteorites from Nebraska, United States This is 1 of 1896 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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