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A Reinvestigation of the Weaver Mountains, Arizona, Meteorite *
Author(s) -
Henderson Edward P.,
Perry Stuart H.
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
contributions of the meteoritical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2805
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1951.tb00172.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , kamacite , geology , iron meteorite , astrobiology , chondrite , physics
The Weaver Mountains, Arizona, meteorite has been reanalyzed. The new results confirm those of the previously reported analysis of this meteorite. The specific gravity first reported, 7.108, was found to be incorrect; this was redetermined and found to be 8.07. The Weaver Mountains meteorite has similar metallographic structures to the Babb's Mill, Tennessee, and the Shingle Springs, California, meteorites. These 3 meteorites are nickel‐rich ataxites, and the ground‐mass of each consists of imperfectly transformed γ‐α structures, in which occur small bodies of kamacite.