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| Basic information | Name: Fillmore This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1916 Country: Canada Mass:  113 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 103 approved meteorites (plus 3 unapproved names) classified as Iron. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Revised 26 Sep 2011: Correction of MB50 | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 50:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE FILLMORE, SASKATCHEWAN, IRON METEORITE Name: FILLMORE Place of find: Fillmore, Saskatchewan, Canada. 52° 2.8'N, 107° 14'W. Date of find: About 1916, recognized 1968. Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 113 g Circumstances of find: Possibly found near Fillmore, the specimen was acquired there by a school teacher. In 1968 it was brought to Dr. W. F. Slawson, University of British Columbia and identified at the Geological Survey of Canada. Source: Dr. J. A. V. Douglas, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Writeup from MB 100: Fillmore 49°53'N, 103°36'W Saskatchewan, Canada Found: 1916 Classification: Iron meteorite Correction: The correct find location of the Fillmore meteorite is that of the town of Fillmore, 49°53’N, 103°36’W. The location of the Kinley meteorite was incorrectly ascribed to that of the Fillmore meteorite in Meteoritical Bulletin no. 50 (page 118). The correct location was recorded by J.A.V. Douglas and W.F. Slawson, as verified from the records of the National Meteorite Collection, Ottawa, Canada by R.K. Herd. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 50, Meteoritics 6, 111-124 (1971) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 100, MAPS 49, E1-E101 (2014)
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Note: the NHM and recommended coordinates are 350.8 km apart Statistics: This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites from Saskatchewan, Canada (plus 6 impact craters) This is 1 of 66 approved meteorites from Canada (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 31 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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