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53.1 grams.   Mesosiderite-A3/4

TKW 320 kg. Observed fall 10 May 1879, in Emmet County, Iowa.

Currently, the third largest witnessed fall in the United States.


 


TGMS17 writes:
Seen at the 2017 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Hotel Tucson City Center, room 322 (Anne Black, Impactika).

From the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce web site:
When it struck it buried itself 15 feet in the ground. Portions of the meteorite are on display in the Estherville Public Library, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.


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MexicoDoug
 3/19/2017 12:39:17 AM		 Beautiful illustration of a must have US historical mesosiderite. Thanks Anne! (And thanks again to the fearless photographer TGMS17!)
Anne Black
 3/18/2017 3:18:44 PM		 Thank you everybody! Thank you Paul for the great pictures, and Thank you Bernd for the explanations. And sorry Mike! but do you want it back?
Bernd Pauli
 3/18/2017 1:54:42 PM		 Hello Wilford: NORTON O.R. (2002) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites (Cambridge University Press, p. 158): "Remarkably some of the larger metal *nodules* when polished and etched show Widmanst*tten structure typical of octahedrites".
Wilford Krantz
 3/18/2017 9:19:18 AM		 Cool! The metal part looks like it could have been a nodule, like in Bondoc.
Mike Tettenborn
 3/18/2017 8:24:25 AM		 A lost friend! This piece was in my collection for many years until I traded it for some other meteorite wonder.
Graham
 3/18/2017 6:42:26 AM		 Very nice sample.
 

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