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| Basic information | Name: Kress (c) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1978 Country: United States Mass:  5.6 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12080 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 83:
Kress (c) Swisher County, Texas, USA Found 1994 March Ordinary chondrite (H5) A 57 g stone was found in a roadside ditch. Mineralogy and clas-sification (M. Prinz, AMNH): olivine, Fo80; pyroxene, En80–82 Wo1.1–1.6. Note that the L6 chondrite from Kress, Texas, found in 1951 should now be referred to as Kress (a). Specimens: main mass, Farrell; type specimen, AMNH. | ||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB83 Table 2 Line 19: |
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| Institutions and collections |
AMNH: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, United States (institutional address; updated 18 May 2013) NHMV: Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria, Austria; Website (institutional address; updated 18 Jan 2019) Farrell: Ron Farrell, Bethany Sciences, P.O. Box 3726, New Haven, CT 06525, United States; Website (private address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 83, MAPS 34, A169-A186 (1999)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 313 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1886 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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