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    The Canyon Diablo meteorite refers to the many fragments of the asteroid that created Meteor Crater (also called Barringer Crater), Arizona, United States...
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    names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite, after the adjacent Canyon Diablo. Meteor Crater lies at an elevation...
    41 KB (4,326 words) - 23:20, 4 August 2024
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    portions of the meteorite were removed. Consequently, the meteorite that struck the crater is officially called the "Canyon Diablo Meteorite." The ramshackle...
    11 KB (1,145 words) - 14:51, 17 June 2024
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    Consequently, the meteorite that caused the crater is officially called the Canyon Diablo meteorite. Canyon Diablo ("devil canyon") is the Spanish translation...
    3 KB (276 words) - 05:12, 28 November 2023
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    meteorites including the Canyon Diablo meteorite and published in 1956. The quoted age of Earth is derived, in part, from the Canyon Diablo meteorite...
    45 KB (5,455 words) - 03:02, 31 July 2024
  • Canyon Diablo may refer to: Canyon Diablo (canyon), Arizona, U.S. Canyon Diablo (meteorite), fragments found in Meteor Crater near the canyon Canyon Diablo...
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    Troilite (category Meteorite minerals)
    sulfur are rather constant in meteorites as compared to the Earth minerals, and therefore troilite from Canyon Diablo meteorite is chosen as the international...
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    Moissanite (category Meteorite minerals)
    their infrared spectra. The discovery of silicon carbide in the Canyon Diablo meteorite and other places was delayed for a long time as carborundum (SiC)...
    16 KB (1,512 words) - 04:58, 24 July 2024
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    Lonsdaleite (category Meteorite minerals)
    crystal lattice. Lonsdaleite was first identified in 1967 from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, where it occurs as microscopic crystals associated with ordinary...
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    William Andrews Clark, Jr. donated a 357 lb (162 kg) fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, now known as the Clark Iron. Over time, the collection grew to...
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  • A meteorite mineral is a mineral found chiefly or exclusively within meteorites or meteorite-derived material.[citation needed] This is a list of those...
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  • the National Science Foundation in April 1962, troilite from the Canyon Diablo meteorite found in Arizona, US, was established as the standard with which...
    12 KB (1,406 words) - 01:13, 19 June 2024
  • for uranium–lead dating. By using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, he calculated an age for the Earth of 4.55 billion years, a figure...
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    The Holsinger meteorite, the largest piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite. Uranium–lead dating and lead–lead dating on this meteorite allowed refinement...
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    Widmanstätten pattern (category Meteorite mineralogy and petrology)
    nickel–iron, found in the octahedrite shapes of iron meteorite crystals and some pallasites. Iron meteorites are very often formed from a single crystal of...
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  • planetesimals. Iron meteorite found in Canyon Diablo Meteorite impact Figure 1. Pb–Pb isochron diagram Samples of iron meteorite from Canyon Diablo (Meteor Crater)...
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    moissanite was first found in 1893 as a small component of the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Arizona by Ferdinand Henri Moissan, after whom the material...
    68 KB (7,422 words) - 04:58, 31 July 2024
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    Carlsbergite (category Meteorite minerals)
    Province, South Africa the Canyon Diablo meteorite of Meteor Crater, Coconino County, Arizona, United States the Smithonia meteorite of Oglethorpe County,...
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  • Vienna-Cañon Diablo Troilite (VCDT) scale. The original CDT scale was based on a sample of the mineral troilite recovered from the Canyon Diablo meteorite at Meteor...
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    contains a large collection of meteorites, gathered from around the world. These include a large fragment of Canyon Diablo meteorite, a piece of an asteroid...
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