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Jenkins: A New Iron Meterorite from Missouri
Author(s) -
READ WILLIAM F.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
meteoritics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0026-1114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1967.tb00366.x
Subject(s) - troilite , meteorite , iron meteorite , geology , graphite , mineralogy , geochemistry , metallurgy , materials science , astrobiology , physics , chondrite
Jenkins was found about 1946 and identified as a meteorite in 1965. The weight before sectioning was 122 lbs. It is a coarse octahedrite with irregular nodules of troilite and sizeable patches of graphite, schreibersite, and lawrencite.