Copyright - M.Bandli - Historic Meteorites
TUCSON
Tucson, Arizona
Recognized in 1850 - Ungrouped Iron
Collection No. B260.1 - A 12.417 gram part slice from the Al Lang Collection. Lang acquired the parent pice from ASU (Nininger Specimen #122a).
Below: A photo-excerpt from J.L. Smith's 1855 Memoir on Meteorites, which contains an early description of the Tucson Ring. It also contains this beautiful engraving depicting the ring as it appeared back then. Note the nodule on the inner ring, which has since been removed.
