Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 1998
Mass: 2.59 kg
Meteoritical Bulletin: MB 82 (1998) H5
Writeup from MB 82:
Ward County, Texas, USA
Fell 1998 22 March, 18:48 CST
Ordinary chondrite (H5)
Two stones, weighing 1344 g and 1243 g, fell in the city of Monahans, Texas, after two sonic booms and a fireball were observed over a wide area (up to 100 km from the fall site). One stone penetrated the asphalt on a city street and was found in the sandy subsurface. Classification and mineralogy (M. Zolensky and G. Lofgren, JSC): a light-dark breccia, with light and black clasts in a gray-colored, pulverized host matrix; olivine, Fa18.8 (host); pyroxene, Fs17.1Wo1.4 (host); plagioclase, An1–19Ab70–75Or6–29 (all lithologies);shock stage S2 (light clasts) to S4 (black clasts); the gray-colored matrix material contains blue crystals of indigenous halite and sylvite, some up to 3 mm in diameter, some euhedral. Specimens: both masses are owned by the City of Monahans, contact the City Manager; type specimen, 20 g, contact Dr. Everett Gibson, JSC. The iron meteorite (group IIF) that was found south of Monahans, Texas, in 1938 will be designated henceforth as Monahans (1938).
and collections JSC: Mailcode KT, 2101 NASA Parkway, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 3 Sep 2013)
Ward: No contact information provided. (private address)
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
Don Edwards
David Hardy
Gerald Armstrong
Catalogue of Meteorites: (31° 36' 30"N, 102° 51' 30"W)
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