Carver

This meteorite was found on display in the Carver Museum, Tuskegee. It is a nickle-poor ataxite. A mass of iron was brought to the Carver Museum in Tuskegee, Alabama, by a farmer from Macon Co. in the 1930′s, Met. Bull. 59, Meteoritics, 1981, 16, p.194. Listed, exact locality unknown, L.LaPaz, Cat. Coll. Inst. Met. Univ. New Mexico, 1965. The iron was named Carver and described, L.LaPaz, Univ. New Mexico Publ. in Meteoritics, 1969, (no. 8) p.155. Alabama is a synonym of both Lime Creek, a Ni-rich ataxite and Walker County, a hexahedrite, A.L.Graham et al., Cat. Met., 1985, p.94. Analysis, 5.5% Ni, 59 ppm Ga, 184 ppm Ge, 12 ppm Ir, A.Kracher et al., GCA, 1980, 44, p.773.

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