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RE: Grayton Beach Meteorite

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Name: GRAYTON
Place of find: Grayton Beach, Walton County, Florida, USA.
30°18'42"N., 86°10'W.
Date of find: 1983
Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5). Olivine Fa18.6.
Number of individual specimens: 1
Total weight: 11.3 kg
Circumstances of find: Found near Grayton Beach by H. Povenmire.
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Title: The Grayton Beach, Florida Meteorite
Authors: Povenmire, H.

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Experts have verified that a bowling ball-size hunk of metal unearthed near Grayton Beach is the third largest meteorite ever found in the southeastern United States.
The 24-pound meteorite is thought to have crashed to Earth at least 400 years ago. Two amateur treasure-hunters found it amid a smattering of Indian artifacts, suggesting that Gulf Coast tribesmen may have kept as a curio.
Harold Povenmire, a widely respected South Florida meteorite buff, and Dr. Glen Huss, director of the American Meteorite Lab in Denver , examined pieces of the object and concluded it is an "olivine hypersthene chondrite stony meteorite." Such meteorites are thought to be as old as the solar system, more than 4 billion years. The meteorite has been registered with the British Museum in London as the Grayton Beach Meteorite.
Phil Gibson of Dune Allen and Dr. John Green of Destin made the discovery Oct. 30 while pursuing their hobby of treasure-seeking.
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