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Name: Odessa
Location: Location: Ector County
Texas
Type: Coarse Octahedrite IA

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Odessa
History

Name: Odessa
Location: Ector County
Texas
Type: Coarse Octahedrite IA

Discovered in 1923, Geologists estimate that the time of the meteor
fall was about 20,000 years ago. The shower was composed of many
thousands of individual meteorites of various sizes that fell over an
area of about two square miles. The smaller meteorites, which were by
far the most numerous, either came to rest on the earth's surface or at
the bottom of shallow impact pits within the soil. There were several
large meteoric masses in the shower, however, and these struck the
earth with such enormous energy that they penetrated deeply into
bedrock and shattered with explosive force, thus producing craters in
the earth at the places of impact. The largest crater is about 550 feet
in diameter and 100 feet in depth. Smaller craters in the vicinity of
the main crater range from 15 to 70 feet in diameter and from seven
feet to 18 feet in depth. In the ages following their formation, the
craters gradually filled with sediments deposited by wind and water.
The main crater was eventually filled to within six feet of the level
of the surrounding plain.

This meteorite was published in the Meteoritical Society Bulletin No. 37
Check out their web site at http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/

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