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Map of the Nullarbor Plain

Map of the Nullarbor Plain

Texas Meteorites - A to M

Date: 03/11/09
Size: 127 items
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Texas Map - Counties

Texas Map - Counties

(Courtesy Geology.com)

Date: 04/03/09
Views: 2478
The Alamo

The Alamo

San Antonio

Date: 04/03/09
Views: 1570
The Texas State Capital

The Texas State Capital

Austin

Date: 04/03/09
Views: 1623
Texas Cowboy Boots

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: 07/17/09
Views: 2564
Featured: Finney - 5.41 grams

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: 07/17/09
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Featured: Finney - 5.41 grams

Featured: Finney - 5.41 grams

Our collection slice has been classified as an L5 chondrite

Date: 07/17/09
Views: 2576
Texas Impacts

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: 06/05/09
Views: 3108
UT Collection of meteorites in Austin, TX

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: 01/01/00
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UT Collection - Large Bluff Stone

UT Collection - Large Bluff Stone

A several kilogram sample of the Bluff meteorite on display at UT in Austin, TX

Date: 06/05/09
Views: 2557
Historical Map of Waco

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: 08/18/09
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Old McLennon County Courthouse

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: 08/18/09
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Axtell - 2.94 grams

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: 08/18/09
Views: 2499
Oscar E. Monnig

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: 10/02/09
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Bells - .030 grams

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: 10/02/09
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Bells - .030 grams

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: 10/02/09
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Map of Texas

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: 08/18/09
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Texas Rangers - 1900s

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: 08/18/09
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Blanket - 4.72 grams

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: 08/18/09
Views: 2577
West Texas Landscape

West Texas Landscape

A considerable number of meteorites including Bledsoe have been found in this area

Date: 07/04/09
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Bledsoe - 1.237 grams

Bledsoe - 1.237 grams

Our sample slice comes from a 30.5 kilogram stone that was struck by a plow in 1970

Date: 07/04/09
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Bledsoe - 1.237 grams

Bledsoe - 1.237 grams

Our slice is classified as an H4 chondrite

Date: 07/04/09
Views: 2506
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