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| Basic information | Name: Emery 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:  16.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites classified as Mesosiderite-A3. [show all] Search for other: Class A mesosiderites, Mesosiderites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 EMERY, SOUTH DAKOTA, STONY-IRON METEORITE Name: EMERY Place of find: Emery, Hanson County, South Dakota. 43° 33'48"N, 97° 35'W. Date of find: About 1962. Class and type: Stony-iron. Mesosiderite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 16.7 kg Circumstances of find: Discovered on a stone pile by a 12 year old farm boy who was trying to break stones by smashing them down upon the stone pile rather than assisting in' clearing stones from the field so that plowing could begin. When this "black stone" was found to be so much heavier than the others, he took it home. It lay in the farm yard from about 1962 until it was recognized as a meteorite in 1968. 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 19 approved meteorites from South Dakota, United States This is 1 of 1896 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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