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| Basic information | Name: Oro Grande This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Country: United States Mass:  513 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10191 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 52:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ORO GRANDE, NEW MEXICO, STONY METEORITE Name: ORO GRANDE Place of find: 10 miles west of Orogrande, New Mexico. 32°22.3'N, 106°15.5'W. Date of find: January 15, 1971. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 513 g Circumstances of find: Mr. T. C. Wilton found the stone in a gravel driveway. Sources for gravel for that area are within a radius of 20 miles, and Mr. Wilton speculates that the meteorite was brought in with the gravel for the driveway. A 248 g specimen is now in the collection of the Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and a 250 g piece was retained by Mr. Wilton. Source: R. V. Fodor, Klaus Keil and Eugene Jarosewich. 1972. The Oro Grande, New Mexico, chondrite and its lithic inclusion. Meteoritics 7,495-507. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 52, Meteoritics 9, 101-121 (1974)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 226 approved meteorites from New Mexico, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1865 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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