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| Basic information | Name: Wimberley This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1976 Country: United States Mass:  7.8 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 321 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE WIMBERLY, USA, IRON METEORITE Name: WIMBERLY Place of find: Approximately 3 km SW of Wimberly, Hays County, Texas, USA. 29°58'N., 98°07'W. Date of find: 1976, early in the year. Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 7.8 kg, approximately. Circumstances of find: Found by Mr. Troy Smith of Pasadena, Texas, during a field excursion. He removed about 800 g from the mass and brought it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science where it was identified as a meteorite. Main mass in the Children's Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Source: E.A. King, Department of Geology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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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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