A meteorite in Gahanna Ohio - Rock and Mineral Displays on Waymarking.com

From The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 85, 2001 September (https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/docs/mb85.pdf)

Gahanna ~40º1' N, 82º52' W Franklin County, Ohio, USA Found ~1950; recognized 1995 February Iron, coarse octahedrite (IAB) A 1201 g iron meteorite was found "40ñ50 years ago" outside of Columbus near Flint Ridge, according to Stephen Holowach, a relative of the finder, although the exact location is not known. Description and classification (G. Huss, ASU; J. Wasson, UCLA): a highly weathered mass, with only the central one-third remaining metallic; moderately shocked, with deformed Widmanst‰tten pattern; contains numerous schreibersite plates ~1 mm thick and up to ~1 cm in length; kamacite bandwidth is 2ñ3 mm; bulk metal has Ni = 7.06 wt%, Ga = 85.6 ppm, Ge = 329 ppm, Ir = 1.81 ppm. Specimens: type specimen, 5 g, UCLA; main mass, ASU.

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