Springwater meteorite

{{Short description|Meteorite found in Canada}}

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|Name= Springwater

|Image= Springwater - Center for Meteorite Studies - Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ - DSC05832.JPG

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|Type= Stony iron

|Class= Pallasite

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|Weathering= W0

|Country= Canada

|Region= Saskatchewan, Canada

|Lat_Long= {{coord|51|58|N|108|22|W|region:CA_type:city|display=inline,title}}

|Observed_fall= No

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|Found_date= 1931

|TKW= {{convert|120|kg|lb}}

|Strewn_field = Yes

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The Springwater meteorite is a stony-iron pallasite, found near Springwater, Saskatchewan in 1931.

[http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php Meteoritical Bulletin Database]Nininger, HH, 1932, The Springwater meteorite, American Mineralogist, vol 17, p 396-400

[http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM17/AM17_396.pdf] At that time the find consisted of three large masses ({{convert|38.6|kg}}, {{convert|18.6|kg}} and {{convert|10.6|kg}}. Other fragments have been found recently, including a {{convert|53|kg}} individual in 2009 that is now in the Royal Ontario Museum.[https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/rare-meteorite-sliced-open-1.909749 CBC news]

Thirty percent of the meteorite is the iron-rich metallic phases kamacite and taenite, with the rest mostly made up of olivine. There are minor amounts of other minerals, including several phosphates such as farringtonite ({{chem2|Mg3(PO4)2}}) and stanfieldite ({{chem2|Ca4(Mg,Fe)5(PO4)6}}) and merrillite (a member of the whitlockite group).