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Schreibersite from
Old Woman meteorite, Sheep Camp Spring, Old Woman District, Old Woman Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA


Locality type:Meteorite Fall Location
Classification
Species:Schreibersite
Formula:(Fe,Ni)3P
Comments:Often as ribbons and/or skeletal crystals; appears unzoned across octahedral-hexahedral transitions (Plotkin et al.,2012).
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Kamacite
Troilite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schreibersite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Old Woman meteorite, Sheep Camp Spring, Old Woman District, Old Woman Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:643947
Long-form Identifier:1:3:643947:7
GUID (UUID V4):9aae873d-f36f-4ee4-9372-5cc8662d4138
Nearest other occurrences of Schreibersite
96.7km (60.1 miles) Ivanpah meteorite (San Bernardino meteorite), Ivanpah (Leastalk), Ivanpah Valley, Ivanpah Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01348.x The Old Woman, California, IIAB iron meteorite Howard PLOTKIN1*, Roy S. CLARKE...Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA * Corresponding author. E-mail: hplotkin@rogers.com...accepted 14 February 2012) Abstract–The Old Woman meteorite, discovered in March 1976 by two prospectors...mine in mountains 270 km east of Los Angeles, has achieved the status of a legend among meteorite hunters...question of the ownership of the 2753 kg group IIAB meteorite, the second largest ever found in the United States
Conference Paper/Abstract
Meteoritical Society Meeting (2011) THE OLD WOMAN, CALIFORNIA, METEORITE. C. M. Corrigan1, R. S. Clarke, Jr...Western Ontario, London, ON. Introduction: The Old Woman meteorite, discovered in March, 1976, by two prospectors...gold mine in mountains ~270 km east of Los Angeles, achieved legendary status among meteorite collectors... History of the Old Woman Meteorite: The question of the ownership of the meteorite gave rise to four...years of disputes. Ultimately, ownership of the meteorite was transferred to the Smithsonian under the powers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA Received 8 May 2006; accepted...sections are available all contain skeletal schreibersite implying a relatively high (>0.3 g/g) P/S ratio;...order to maximize the ability to fit the iron meteorite trends in a plausible way. At moderately high...having occurred. Group IIAB is the only major iron meteorite group for which no oxygen-isotopic data are available...samples are one each (mainly) consisting of schreibersite and troilite. These Santa Luzia samples were
Report (chapter)
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560-0119, USA 2Department of Philosophy, University of Western...Smith and acquisition of the iconic Tucson Ring meteorite. The collection was shaped by geochemist F.W....first meteorite curator, who figured in debate over Meteor Crater and was a US pioneer in meteorite petrology...Nininger. Henderson played a key role in increasing meteorite research capabilities after the Second World War...lunar sample analyses, the recovery of the Old Woman meteorite and recovery of thousands of meteorites from
Book
Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters O. Richard Norton Illustrated by Dorothy S. Norton Mountain Press...asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere at dusk over San Francisco Bay, leaving behind a dust train and pushing...O. Richard. Rocks from space : meteorites and meteorite hunters / O. Richard Norton ; illustrated by Dorothy...Meteorites 5. Meteorite Showers 6. Two Great Siberian Meteorite Falls 7. America's Great Meteorite Crater 8...Ill 131 Part ll - what is a Meteorite? 9. How to Recognize a Meteorite 10. Chondrites-The Common Stony
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MÖSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY OF OLIVINES FROM THE D’ORBIGNY METEORITE Y. A. Abdu1, M. E. Varela2 and F. C. Hawthorne1...2ICATE-CONICET, Av. España 1512 Sur, CP J5402DSP, San Juan, Argentina. 5444 A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF MAGMATIC...(d13C approximately 0 to +5&) lining vugs in the meteorite. There are also differences in magmatic carbon...Science, Pennsylvania State University—DuBois, PA, USA. E-mail: abreu@psu.edu. Introduction: CR chondrites...of the Meteoritical Society: Abstracts 5022 METEORITE IMPACT CRATERS IN SOUTH AMERICA: A BRIEF REVIEW
Book
University, Cambridge, MA, USA Karl K. Turekian Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA VOLUME 1 METEORITES AND...of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO LONDON NE W YORK...OX5 1GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA First edition 2003 Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd...age of 16, he entered Princeton. Dick was 19 years old when he graduated from Princeton. After a stint of...editors used get-togethers at AGU Fall Meetings in San Francisco, CA, to gradually bring the treatise to
 
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