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Forsterite from
Pena Blanca Spring meteorite, Gage Ranch, Marathon, Brewster County, Texas, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pena Blanca Spring meteorite, Gage Ranch, Marathon, Brewster County, Texas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:807791
Long-form Identifier:1:3:807791:2
GUID (UUID V4):add21ea1-aa3e-4e20-b8a1-fdf7a6498742
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
98.7km (61.3 miles) Study Butte meteorite, Study Butte, Brewster County, Texas, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PENA BLANCA SPRING METEORITE, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS Jouw T. LoNSoAtn,UniversityoJ Teras,Austin,... Teras. Arsrnecr The Petra Blanca Spring meteorite iell August 2, 1946, in the swimming pool at the headquarters...headquarters of the Gage Ranch near Marathon in Brewster County, Texas. Twenty-four people were within...of the point of fall, and one person saw the meteorite in flight. Many interesting incidents were accurately...reported. Approximately 70 Kg. (155 lbs.) of the meteorite were recovered, consisting of one fragment of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $22.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...92093-0317, USA 3 Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Mineral Sciences MRC NHB-119, Washington DC 20560, USA (Received...exposure (CRE) age of Norton County, the first measured stony meteorite (Begemann et al., 1957), yields...longest currently known exposure time of a stone meteorite. Gaffey et al. (1992) suggested a link between...Shallowater meteorite also are indicative of regolith processes. Thermal neutron fluxes in Norton County and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the presence of disorderedenetatite. EIG~ meteorite falls and one find have been classified as enstatite...aubrites, after the Aubres meteorite, or as bustites, from the Bustee meteorite. The mineralogy tlnd bulk...markedly similar and distinct from any other meteorite class. The major mineral present in each of these...Bu&ee Cumberland Falls Khor Temiki Norton County Pena Blanca Spring Pesyanoe Shallowater 0.8 U.S.A. India... makes up over 76 vol. % of the aasembla,ge. Forsterite and diopside occur with small amounts of plagioclase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Society, 1999. Printed in USA. Partial melting of the Indarch (EH4) meteorite: A textural, chemical, and...20560-0 1 19, USA 2Physics Department, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064, USA 3Code SN2...SN2, NASNJohnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058, USA *Correspondence author's e-mail address: mccoy...including the presence in aubrites of abundant forsterite (Waters and Prinz, 1979), inverted pigeonite...material were obtained from the 27 kg lndarch meteorite (Me 1404, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1989) © Meteoritical Society, 1989. Printed in USA Enstatite meteorites and their parent bodies* KLAUS...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 USA (Received 10 August 1989; accepted in revisedform...Aubrites represent samples from a third enstatite meteorite parent body. 3. The aubrite parent body may have...Shallowater may be a sample from yet a fourth enstatite meteorite parent body. 6. Shallowater experienced a complex...reassembly. 7. It is unknown why some enstatite meteorite parent bodies melted (the aubrite and Shallowater
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA Abstract: 256 Text: ~ 5,612 Figures: 4 Tables: 1...University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; ″ Present address: Isotope Laboratory, Department...Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. 1 1 2 Abstract Magnesium isotopic compositions... 1996; Mittlefehldt, 2014). 116 Twenty two meteorite samples including 7 types of achondrites and 2...silicate 126 inclusion, and Zag (b) groups. Meteorite samples from acapulcoite-lodranite and winonaite-IAB-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NASA-JSC, 2101 NASA Parkway, MS KR, Houston, TX 77058, USA c University of Alberta, Department of Earth and...32310, USA e Jacobs Technology, E.S.C.G., Mail Code JE23, 2224 Bay Area Blvd, Houston, TX 77058, USA Received...body, is suggested for the anomalous enstatite meteorite Mt. Egerton based on mineral chemistry and oxygen...USNM 5873-4, Cumberland Falls USNM 477-1, Norton County USNM 1712-2, and Bishopville USNM 222-1. Thin sections...Two 150 lm thick sections were prepared by the Meteorite Working Group at NASA-Lyndon B. Johnson Space
Book
2. Lunar geology. 3. Planets — Surfaces. 4. Meteorite craters. I. Title. QB501.K56 550'.999 75-45357...geological exploration of space. Elbert King Houston, Texas Elbert A. King is Professor of Geology at the...M.A. degrees in geology from The University of Texas. Contents 1, Meteorites INTRODUCTION STONY METEORITES...INTRODUCTION 95 METEOR CRATER, ARIZONA 98 ODESSA CRATERS, TEXAS 102 HAVILAND CRATER, KANSAS 103 THE CANADIAN CRATERS...at Mecca. This stone is widely reputed to be a meteorite and even thought to be the oldest preserved fragment
 
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