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In 1950 Professor W.S. Strain discovered that a stony meteorite had fallen east of El Paso, Texas. The GPS coordinates are approximately N 31.78285, W-106.23390. It weighed 275.8 grams, and is now in the Department of Geology at the University of Texas in El Paso.
The International Meteoritical Society officially lists this meteorite as the EL PASO STONY METEORITE. It is one of 291 approved meteorites from Texas, and 1,497 from the entire United States.
It is a stony, olivine-hypersthene chondrite.
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