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| Basic information | Name: Eva This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1965 Country: United States Mass:  6.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10853 approved meteorites (plus 19 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 51:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE EVA OKLAHOMA, STONY METEORITE Name: EVA Place of find: Eva, Texas County, Oklahoma. 36° 12'N, 101° 54'30"W. Date of find: 1965 or 1966 Class and type: Stone. Chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 7.6 kg Circumstances of find: One fragment probably representing less than half of the original specimen was found lying in a gateway used to bring farm machinery into a yard. It had evidently been deposited there by roadbuilding equipment clearing out ditches and repairing the dirt road. It is assumed that the remaining parts of the stone are in the roadbed. Source: Glenn I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
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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 1885 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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