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A New Iron Meteorite from Webster County, Missouri
Author(s) -
READ WILLIAM F.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1964.tb01435.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , troilite , iron meteorite , geology , archaeology , astrobiology , geography , chondrite , physics
An iron meteorite weighing approximately 57 pounds was plowed up near Seymour, Webster County, Missouri, about 1940. The importance of the find was not recognized until the fall of 1963, when a small piece was sent to Harvard University. Externally the meteorite is irregular, showing no evidence of oriented flight. Structurally, it is a coarse octahedrite containing conspicuous large nodules of troilite, which are rimmed with schreibersite.