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28.1 grams.   L6

TKW 11.36 kg. Fall not observed.


Anne writes:

A single stone, weighing some 11.36kg, was found by a rancher sometimes in the early 1960s in rangeland in central Colorado while looking for arrowheads. He brought it home but thinking that it was just an odd looking rock he added it to his wife's rock garden.

And it stayed there until 1997 when Gary Curtiss, a Colorado geologist and meteorite collector happened to go by and spotted it. He immediately recognized it for what it was, bought it and had it classified by Alan Rubin at UCLA. Clifford is an ordinary chondrite, type L6, Shock S3, Weathering W2, with some large chondrules, metal blebs, and odd tiny vugs.

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