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| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-05T17:49:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-05T17:49:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | n.d. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/59092 | |
| dc.description | Details of the Dexter, Texas meteorite and how it was acquired. | |
| dc.relation | Oscar Monnig Papers (MS 124) | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph. | |
| dc.source | Series III, Box 06, Deport Iron, 1933-1977 folder | |
| dc.subject | Meteorite | |
| dc.subject | Dexter (Tex.) | |
| dc.subject | Siderite | |
| dc.title | Notes of Properties of Dexter, Texas 1724 Grams Meteorite | |
| dc.type | Document | |
| dc.description.transcription | Dexter, Cooke County, U.S.A. Found 1889 Siderite: Coarse octahedrite, 0g. Specimen: (2626) 1724 gms. Remarks: A meteoric mass of 1724 grams was found near Dexter, in Cooke County, Texas, in the year 1889. About a year before the specimen was found, a meteor in this vicinity made everything as light as day; it seemed to have fallen in the neighborhood where the specimen was found. American Museum received entire mass from M. E. Oxley, of Trousdale, Oklahoma, October 27, 1930. [copied from our lists. Rice Low, flat cone with apex off-center & depression adjourning it, 0 g. Badly hacked. Figures libe. Deport. No Schredersite or troilite.] | |
