Eagle Station meteorite

Eagle Station
Type Achondrite, pallasite
Grouplet PES (Eagle Station grouplet)
Country USA
Region Kentucky
Coordinates 38°37′N 84°58′W / 38.617°N 84.967°W / 38.617; -84.967Coordinates: 38°37′N 84°58′W / 38.617°N 84.967°W / 38.617; -84.967
Observed fall No
Found date 1880
TKW 36 kg (79 lb)[1]

The Eagle Station meteorite is a pallasite and type specimen of the Eagle Station grouplet.[2]

It was found in 1880 close to Eagle Station, Carroll County, Kentucky (USA). The first description was made by George F. Kunz in 1887.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Eagle Station". Meteoritical Society.
  2. ↑ D.S. Lauretta, H.Y. McSween, Jr., editors ; foreword by Richard P. Binze; M. K. Weisberg; T. J. McCoy, A. N. Krot (2006). "Systematics and Evaluation of Meteorite Classification". Meteorites and the early solar system II (PDF). Tucson: University of Arizona Press. pp. 19–52. ISBN 978-0816525621. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Kunz, George F. (1887). "On two new meteorites from Carroll County, Kentucky and Catorce, Mexico". American Journal of Science 33: 228–235.

See also

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