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| Basic information | Name: Hunter This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1962 Country: United States Mass:  74.6 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 3150 approved meteorites classified as LL5. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE HUNTER, USA, STONY METEORITE Name: HUNTER Place of find: Garfield County, Oklahoma, USA. 36°33'36"N., 97°40'W. Date of find: Early 1960's. Recognized 1971. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite, amphoterite. Olivine Fa29. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 74.6 kg known Circumstances of find: Unearthed by a bulldozer during the terracing of a field. A second, smaller piece, was said to have been found and given to an oil geologist. Source: G.I Huss, 1976. The Huss Coll. of Meteorites, p. 23, American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA, and priv. comm., 1978. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 40 approved meteorites from Oklahoma, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1861 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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