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Texas Map - Counties
(Courtesy Geology.com)
Date: 04/03/2009
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The Alamo
San Antonio
Date: 04/03/2009
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The Texas State Capital
Austin
Date: 04/03/2009
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Texas Cowboy Boots
Welcome to our special collection of Texas meteorites! Texas is a big place with wide open spaces and many ranchers and farmers - a great combination for finding space rocks. Put on your boots and let's go find some...
Date: 07/17/2009
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Featured: Finney - 5.41 grams
A meteorite named "Finney" found in Texas? A great specimen for the Finney Collection of Meteorites - We have this nice slice from the 10.4 kilogram Finney meteorite found in Hale County Texas in 1962
Date: 07/17/2009
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Featured: Finney - 5.41 grams
Our collection slice has been classified as an L5 chondrite
Date: 07/17/2009
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Texas Impacts
Map at the University of Texas in Austin showing many of the major meteorite impact sites around the state - 294 approved meteorites to date!
Date: 06/05/2009
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UT Collection of meteorites in Austin, TX
Several of the meteorite display cases at the Natural Science Center of the University of Texas Memorial Museum
Date: 01/01/2000
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UT Collection - Large Bluff Stone
A several kilogram sample of the Bluff meteorite on display at UT in Austin, TX
Date: 06/05/2009
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Historical Map of Waco
In 1943 a single stone weighing 6.2 kilograms was found while a farmer was ploughing in McLennon County outside of Waco - it would later be named the Axtell meteorite
Date: 08/18/2009
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Old McLennon County Courthouse
The Axtell meteorite was not recognized as a space rock until 1993 - it is now on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and at the Museum National d`Histoire Naturelle in Paris
Date: 08/18/2009
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Axtell - 2.94 grams
Our fantastic slice has been classified as a carbonaceous chondrite of the CV group that is petrologic type three - in other words a "CV3"
Date: 08/18/2009
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Oscar E. Monnig
Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Oscar collected meteorites at the same time as Harvey Nininger, with whom he would often collaborate - he donated his amazing collection of 3,000 specimens from 400 different meteorites to TCU in 1987
Date: 10/02/2009
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Bells - .030 grams
Seven fragments with a total weight of about 280 grams were recovered over distance of about 7.5 kilometers by Oscar Monnig - the first fragment hit the roof of a house and was picked up the following morning in a perfect state
Date: 10/02/2009
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Bells - .030 grams
Our small piece of this famous and rare Texas meteorite has been classified as a carbonaceous chondrite of petrologic type 2 that is ungrouped (C2-ung) - the same classification as the famous Tagish Lake meteorite
Date: 10/02/2009
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Map of Texas
This map shows the size of the state in relation to the size of the rest of the United States - scientists are still confirming
Date: 08/18/2009
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Texas Rangers - 1900s
In 1909 the 5.1 kilogram Blanket meteorite fell into Texas - a newspaper account said that the county attorney saw a fireball "so close it frightened him" - the bulk of the meteorite is in the Field Museum in Chicago
Date: 08/18/2009
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Blanket - 4.72 grams
Our slice of the meteorite has been classified as an L6 chondrite - this piece looks a little like a cowboy boot!
Date: 08/18/2009
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West Texas Landscape
A considerable number of meteorites including Bledsoe have been found in this area
Date: 07/04/2009
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Bledsoe - 1.237 grams
Our sample slice comes from a 30.5 kilogram stone that was struck by a plow in 1970
Date: 07/04/2009
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Bledsoe - 1.237 grams
Our slice is classified as an H4 chondrite
Date: 07/04/2009
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