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| Basic information | Name: Oxford This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1985 Country: United States Mass:  6 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12021 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 81:
Oxford Furnas County, Nebraska, USA Found 1985 September Ordinary chondrite (H5) A 6 kg stone was found by K. Johnson while plowing. Classifica-tion and mineralogy (M. Prinz, AMNH): olivine, Fo81; pyroxene Wo0.7–1.6En81.5–82.7. Specimens: main mass, Farrell; type specimen, AMNH. | ||||||||||||||||
| 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) 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. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 50 approved meteorites from Nebraska, United States This is 1 of 1934 approved meteorites from United States (plus 866 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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