NEW RAYMER

A (very) small town in northern Colorado, just south of the Pawnee Buttes National Grassland.  It is an area of cactus, short grass, badlands where time seems to stand still. Very few signs of human habitation, only eagles and falcons overhead, antelopes grazing about. The area is not known for meteorites but for fossils, thousands of them representing hundreds of species have been recovered here. That is until a local rancher, who obviously had learned to recognized meteorites, ran into this one in 1995.

Only one mass was found in 1995 by a local rancher who prefers to remain anonymous.
It was analyzed by Gary Huss and was published in Meteoritical Bulletin #89.

Table data from: MB89 Table 2 Line 73:
State/Prov/County: Weld, CO
Date: 1995
Latitude: 40°37.55'N
Longitude: 103°50.42'W
Mass (g): 3400
Pieces: 1
Class: LL4
Shock stage: S1
Weathering grade: W2
Fayalite (mol%): 28.8
Ferrosilite (mol%): 23.1
Type spec mass (g): 412
Info: classified by G. Huss, ASU; main mass, finder M. Wolff; type specimen, Denver.

Institutions and collections:
ASU: Center for Meteorite Studies, Department of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA (institutional address)
Denver: Denver Museum of Natural History, City Park, Denver, CO 80205, USA (institutional address)

Registry:	FO005
Mineral Name:	New Raymer
Source:	Colorado
Mineral Size:	129.9g
Sale Price:	$1,650.00
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