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| Basic information | Name: Gaines County Park This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1977 Country: United States Mass:  13.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12055 approved meteorites (plus 23 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. Gaines County Park Gaines County, Texas, USA Found October 1977 Stone. Ordinary chondrite (H5) A highly weathered mass of 30.5 lbs. (13.7 kg) was found during plowing in a grain field by J. C. Snadgrass, about 9 km west of Gaines County Park. Classification and analysis, olivine Fa18.6, C. F. Lewis, Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA. Equal parts of the main mass are in the collection of Blaine Reed, Durango, Colorado 81301, USA and in the American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, Colorado 80201, USA. Information by Blaine Reed. | ||||||||||||||||
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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 317 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters) This is 1 of 1934 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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