Odessa IVA Coarse
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The Odessa meteorite specimens
are found in and around a 600 foot wide crater just outside the town of Odessa,
Texas, U.S.A. The crater was discovered in 1921, but the meteorite is believed
to have fallen at least 200,000 years ago.
Odessa specimens tend to
exhibit large numbers of inclusions of silicates, graphitic material,
troilite and other minerals. These
inclusions sometimes give Odessa a sinister appearance. The "bite" taken out of
the top of the pictured specimen was a large inclusion that melted out of the
nickel-iron matrix during atmospheric transit.
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