|Basic information||Name: Anton|
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1965
Country: United States
Mass: 41.8 kg
This is 1 of 4653 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7), H chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites
Writeup from MB 62:
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DISCOVERY OF THE ANTON, USA, STONY METEORITE
Place of find: Hockley County, Texas, USA.
Date of find: 1965
Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite.
Number of individual
Total weight: 41.8 kg
Circumstances of find: Found during ploughing. Mass now in the American Meteorite Laboratory, Denver, USA.
Source: G.I Huss, American Meteorite Laboratory, P.O. Box 2098, Denver, Colorado, USA.
|References:||Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 62, Meteoritics 19, 49-57 (1984)|
This is 1 of 305 approved meteorites from Texas, United States (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 3 impact craters)
This is 1 of 1739 approved meteorites from United States (plus 355 unapproved names) (plus 28 impact craters)
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