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Cleo Springs
Basic information Name: Cleo Springs
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1960
Country: United States
Mass:help 24 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 81  (1997)  H4
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H4
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H4
Recommended:  H4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 5956 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
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Writeup from MB 81:

Cleo Springs

Major County, Oklahoma, USA

Found early 1960s

Ordinary chondrite (H4)

A 24 kg stone was found by a farmer in a wheat field, and used as a plow weight.  Mineralogy, classification and description (M. Zolen-sky, JSC; J. Martin, OML):  olivine, Fa21; pyroxene, Fs18; meteorite is significantly weathered; chondrules contain turbid plagioclase and glass; shock stage S2.  Specimens:  type specimen, 20 g, JSC; main mass, Reed.

Institutions
   and collections		 JSC: Mailcode KT, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 3 Sep 2013)
OML: Oklahoma Meteorite Laboratory, P.O. Box 1923, Stillwater, OK 74076, United States (private address)
Reed: Blaine Reed, P.O. Box 1141, Delta, CO 81416, United States; Website (private address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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Geography:

United States
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (36° 26'N, 98° 26'W)
     Recommended::   (36° 26'N, 98° 26'W)

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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