Location of Washington State Meteorites

[Bernd Pauli <bernd.pauli@lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Hello Steven and all the other List Members!

1) Albion IVA iron:

A single 12.28 kg mass was found on a wheat farm by K. Oliphant.
Description and classification (C.F. Lewis, ASU; J.T. Wasson, UCLA):
bulk composition, 8.20 wt% Ni, 2.04 ppm Ga; bandwidth ~0.3 mm; very
similar to Gibeon in composition and appearance but contains vugs with
botryoidal linings (see Marvin et al., 1996).

Specimens: type specimen, ASU; main mass, unknown (Met.Bull. 81, 1997,
A159).
ASU = Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Box 872504

Literature:
a) OLSEN E.J. (1981) Vugs in ordinary chondrites (Meteoritics 16,
45-59).
b) U.B. Marvin et al. (1996) Drusy vugs in the Albion iron meteorite:
Mineralogy and textures (abs. Meteoritics 31, 1996, A083).
c) M.E. Petaev et al. (1996) Drusy vugs in the Albion iron meteorite:
Early speculations on the origin (abs. Meteoritics 31, 1996, A107).

2) Colton IIIAB iron:

A weathered iron mass of 19.67kg was found by David Bauer as he walked
across his field. The find site is 2 km ENE of Colton, a small town
about halfway between Pullman and Clarkston, Washington; Composition
analysis by J.T.Wasson, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024-1567, USA.

Classification, information and main mass: R.S.Clarke, Division of
Meteorites, Smithonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA.
(Met.Bull. 77, 1994, 892)


3) Tacoma IAB iron:

A single mass of 16.7g was found on a farm outside Tacoma. Description
and analysis, 7.15 %Ni, 73 ppm Ga, 272 ppm Ge, 2.3 ppm Ir, E.R.D. Scott
et al., Meteoritics, 1977, 12, p.425. Chemically very similar to Cañon
Diablo, but undeformed.

Specimens: 12.1g, Los Angeles, Univ. of Calif. -- 2.2g, Washington, U.S.
Nat. Mus.

4) Washougal AHOW:

One stone, the size of a tennis ball, was found in NW. 1/4, sect. 8,
township 1 N., range 4 E. Brief description, J.H. Pruett, Pop. Astron.,
Northfield, Minnesota, 1939, 47, p.500. The mass of the stone was 225g,
popular account of the fall, F.C. Leonard, Griffith Observer, 1940, 4,
p.98 (M.A. 8-61). The place of find is given as the NE. corner of sect.
8, not the NW, A.D. Nininger, Pop. Astron., Northfield, Minnesota, 1940,
48, p.557, Contr.Soc.Res.Met., 2, p.227 (M.A. 8-54). Description of
polymict nature, 14.22 % total iron, D.Y. Jérome and M. Christophe
Michel-Lévy, Meteoritics, 1972, 7, p.449. Fission track age, E.A. Carver
and E. Anders, GCA, 1976, 40, p.467.

Specimens: Main mass  Eugene, Univ.of Oregon   8.1g, Tempe, Arizona
State Univ., BM London, 17g (and powder, 1g).

5) Waterville IIICD iron:

A mass of 75lb was ploughed up on Fachnie farm, F.A. McMillan, The
Mineralogist, Portland, Oregon, 1940, 8, p.223, 239 (M.A. 8-61). Other
smaller masses were also found, one weighing 3.125kg, O.W. Freeman,
Northwest Sci., 1948, 22, p.25. Contains abundant troilite and graphite,
together about 15% (by volume) of the mass; co-ordinates; the farm is 16
miles NE. of Waterville, V.F. Buchwald, Iron Meteorites, Univ. of
California, 1975, p.1288. Classification and analysis of metal, 7.81%
Ni, 64.8 ppm Ga, 196 ppm Ge, 0.30 ppm Ir, J.T. Wasson, Icarus, 1970, 12,
p.407.

Specimens: Main mass  Waterville Mus. 197g, Washington, U.S. Nat. Mus.
118g,
Tempe, Arizona State Univ., BM London, 130g (slice and sawings, 4g),
0.107g (troilite).

6) Withrow IIIAB? iron:

A mass of 19.25lb with well preserved ablation surface was found 1 mile
west of Withrow. Illustrated description, W.F. Read et al., Meteoritics,
1967, 3, p.219, 231. Classification, V.F. Buchwald, Iron Meteorites,
Univ. of California, 1975, p.1326.

Specimens: 8.7kg, Waterville Mus.

Regards, Bernd

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