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Country: USA
State/District: Alabama, Choctaw and Sumter Co.
Co-ordinates: 32°14'N, 88°12'W
Date of find: 1859
Total known weight: 43kg (approx.)
Number of pieces: 6
Remarks:
Classification:
Type: structurally anomalous (hexahedrite to coarse octahedrite), Bellsbank grouplet
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Mineral Analyses:
Pairings: Auburn?
Synonyms: De Sotoville, Macon County, Sotoville, Tombigbee
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Six masses, totalling about 96lb, the largest of 33lb, were found at different times from 1859 to 1886 near De Sotoville, M.H.Hey, Cat. Met., 1966, p.485. Description, with an analysis, 4.11% Ni, W.M.Foote, Am. J. Sci., 1899, 8, p.153. K-Ar ages, W.Kaiser and J.Zähringer, Meteorite Research, ed. P.M.Millman, D.Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, 1969, p.429; see also, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 1968, 4, p.84. Classification and analysis, 4.3% Ni, 38.5 ppm Ga, 62.5 ppm Ge, 0.021 ppm Ir; Auburn is probably a paired fragment, E.R.D.Scott et al., GCA, 1973, 37, p.1957. Metallographic description; large schreibersites present, cosmically shocked, V.F.Buchwald, Handbook of Iron Meteorites, Univ. of California, 1975, p.1218. Study of phosphide morphology, A.J.Easton and H.A.Buckley, Meteoritics, 1979, 14, p.143. Compositional study, genetic relationship to other grouplet members, D.J.Malvin et al., LPSC, 1984, 15, p.507 (abs.). Nitrogen isotopic composition, C.A.Prombo and R.N.Clayton, GCA, 1993, 57, p.3749.
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