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957 Iron (IAB) Course Octahedrite Meteorite (sliced wedge) Near Odessa, Ector County, Texas, United States miniature 5 x 2 x 1.3 cm This belated accession is actually one of the mineralogical sparks that signaled the start of my "second wind" at mineral collecting - the first having been my childhood involvement decades before. A seller at an Arts & Crafts fair in Pagosa Springs Colorado, where I had been visiting my parents, had some meteorite samples for sale, and for some mysterious reason I could not resist buying this little one. I found it fired my imagination - to hold a substantial chunk of metal which had travelled so far through space for so long, before falling to earth and waiting through all of recorded history to be found in Texas in 1922, and then eventually to make its way to my hand, and now, my mineral cabinet. Despite the fact that the Odessa impact is not as well known as the crater near Winslow, Arizona, it was still a sizable impact and one of the most unusual in that it came in at a very shallow angle and was more of a ricochet than a direct impact. The end result was a crater measuring around 175 yards in width and 33 yards in depth. First discovered in 1922, near Odessa, Ector County, Texas. Age is approximately 25,000 years old. labelMineral Occurances
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