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| Basic information | Name: Sulphur Springs Draw This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1990 Country: United States Mass:  1892 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10279 approved meteorites (plus 18 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 72:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Sulphur Springs Draw Terry County, Texas, USA Found September 20, 1990 Stone. Ordinary chondrite (H5) A stone of 1892 g was found while plowing a grainfield by A. Berryhill. It is highly weathered and shows almost no free metal. Classification and analysis, olivine Fa19.4, A. L. Graham, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK. Within a distance of 25 km four other chondrites were found: Wellman (a), (b), (d), and Brownfield (b). A direct comparison of characteristics of crust, matrix, free metal and general weathering showed Sulphur Springs Draw to be different from all of them. Information and main mass, Terry E. Schmidt, Tiara Observatory, P. O. Box 1059, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80901, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 72, Meteoritics 27, 109-117 (1992)
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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 1871 approved meteorites from United States (plus 890 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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