Tucson Ring meteorite

{{Short description|Iron meteorite found in Arizona, United States}}

{{Infobox meteorite

|Name= Tucson Ring

|Image= Tucson ring.jpg

|Image_caption= The Tucson Ring meteorite on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

|Type= Iron{{cite web |title=Tucson |url=https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=24061 |website=The Meteoritical Society |access-date=21 April 2019}}

|Class= Iron, ungrouped

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|Country= United States

|Region= Arizona

|Lat_Long= {{coord|31|51|N|110|58|W|display=inline,title}}

|Observed_fall= No

|Fall_date=

|Found_date= 1850

|TKW= 975 kg

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The Tucson Ring meteorite is a brezinaite meteorite fragment, first described by Bunch and Fuchs.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=16JcCwAAQBAJ&dq=Tucson+ring+meteorite&pg=PA52|title=Mineralogy of Arizona|last1=Anthony|first1=John W.|last2=Williams|first2=Sidney A.|last3=Bideaux|first3=Richard A.|last4=Grant|first4=Raymond W.|date=2016-05-26|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=9780816534043|language=en}} It was reported as one of several masses of virgin iron found at the foot of the Sierra de la Madera and transported to the plaza of Tucson, Arizona circa 1850, where it was used as an anvil in a blacksmith's shop.{{Citation

| first1 = Roy S. Jr.

| last1 = Clarke

| first2 = Howard

| last2 = Plotkin

| first3 = Timothy

| last3 = McCoy

| editor-last = McCall

| editor-first = G. J. H.

| editor2-last = Bowden

| editor2-first = A. J.

| editor3-last = Bowden

| editor3-first = R. J.

| contribution = Meteorites and the Smithsonian Institution

| title = The History of Meteoritics and Key Meteorite Collections: Fireballs, Falls and Finds

| page = 241

| year = 2006

| place = London

| publisher = The Geological Society

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7SvtVoa1W-cC&dq=nogata+meteorite&pg=PA16

| isbn = 9781862391949 }}

File:Tucson Ring meteorite 1867.jpg, 1867.]]