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0.34 grams.   Diogenite

TKW 40.3 kg. Observed fall 6 July 1924 in Weld County, Colorado, USA.

     


John writes:
Fragment with a cut edge from Dean Bessey in 2001.
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Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
 


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John Divelbiss
 9/27/2019 11:18:39 AM		 Thanks Bernd...sounds right to me. It is "silvery" looking, so it is likely a spread of fine-grained iron-nickel. Cool how it passes through the face of the large hypersthene crystal in photo 3. I made sure it was polished before the photo was taken to be sure the metal wasn't spread on to the crystal...during the cutting, by others.
Bernd Pauli
 9/27/2019 10:54:57 AM		 John, if it is troilite, it should be bronze-colored or brass-colored!
John Divelbiss
 9/27/2019 10:36:55 AM		 Curious if anyone can identify the fine grained metal in the cut face, running vertically in the middle of photo 3 and on the left of photo 4 ? Troilite or FE-Ni ??
Bernd Pauli
 9/27/2019 9:59:09 AM		 Nice little piece with several green hypersthene crystals!
 

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