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907.7 gram oddly shaped end cut. Iron, IAB-MG
TKW 6.4 kg. Fall not observed. Found 1986, Mora County, New Mexico.
From the MetBul
History: A single 6.4 kg mass was found by a local New Mexico hunter in 1986. Knowing it was different from the surrounding rocks and had an odd appearance (the face of a bear), the hunter took it home and set it aside with an odd assortment of 'collectibles' while hunting and mountaineering over decades in the New Mexico area. The owner contacted G. Hupe in May 2008 for verification of the find, which was confirmed by study of the type sample at the University of Alberta.
Physical characteristics: A single stone weighing 6402 grams with virtually no apparent fusion crust, yet also lacking progressed terrestrial alteration, which contributes towards its dark brown metallic appearance with well defined regmaglypts.
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Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
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Anne Black
12/6/2016 4:32:27 PM |
Thank you everybody. Thank you Doug for the History of Ocate. Yes, it was once thought to be a piece of Canyon Diablo, but it is not, and that has been proven. (262 IAB octahedrite listed in the Met.Bulletin!). Who is sending the next picture(s)? |
MexicoDoug
12/6/2016 9:27:34 AM |
(cont'd) At the same time, on a personal note, there was a beautiful regmaglypted Glorieta Mountain individual. It was the best examples of regmaglypting I've ever seen except it had been unfortunately gouged by a tool digging it out. I had a chance to buy it for $1000, but not having cash on hand and considering the gouge did not run to Santa Fe. Dumb move ... I then lost out to Greg when he came. That would make a nice MPOD ... It has incredible miniature regmaglypts completely covering it and a great shape. Hupe was buying up Glorieta pieces in general at the time and in that the connection was made through word of mouth, to Ocate. Anyway that is as I remember this :-) Congrats Greg and what a nice piece Anne, thanks for all your contributions here! |
MexicoDoug
12/6/2016 9:26:19 AM |
The guy that found this lived in the mountain boonies and had a reputation of being a character. When I was searching Glorieta, before Hupe went there the rumors were flying around on whether this was credible or not, and it was a widely known secret in the tradition of gold miner styled loose-lips. Some locals in the know, in the field, asserted it to be a planted Canyon Diablo. Greg was in Florida and was surprised when I called him for some reason, and casually mentioned his contact's name and that I knew the rumor :-) He was there a couple of days later. One of the Glorieta hunters was waiting to help or chauffeur Greg in the Glorieta Mountain strewn field to the finder's place. He was nervous and then took off to the airport to pick Greg up and then whisked him off there.
I'm glad there was a successful negotiation and this turned out to be the real deal based on Greg's work. It was very entertaining to watch the gold fever that infected all those involved. At the |
Jansen Lyons
12/6/2016 8:55:03 AM |
Interesting shape. Great looking New Mexican meteorite!
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Bernd Pauli
12/6/2016 3:19:41 AM |
Octahedral pattern revealed in photo #2? Thank you, Anne, for sharing this interesting iron with us! |
Adri*n Contreras G*mez
12/6/2016 3:17:41 AM |
Hermosa e interesante pieza! Un patr*n con inclusiones muy bonitas :) Saludos |
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