Английская Википедия:Gay Gulch meteorite
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Gay Gulch is an iron meteorite[1] found in 1901 by miners near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, using a slice box to mine alluvial gold.[2] They were exploiting Pliocene gravel, hence the meteorite may have fallen at that time.
Classification
It is a nickel-rich ataxite, IAB-sHH.
Fragments
The main mass is in the National Meteorite Collection, Ottawa.
See also
References
Шаблон:Meteorites Шаблон:Meteorites by name
- ↑ Meteoritical Bulletin Database
- ↑ Johnston, R. A. A 1915 Gay Gulch and Skookum meteorites, Ottawa: Canada. Geological Survey, 31 pages