Lake Murray Cut Polished Iron Meteorite - 63g

The Lake Murray Meteorite was discovered on a farm in Carter County, Oklahoma in 1933, by a man named J. C. Dodson Sr.  After being studied by Dr. Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico, he determined that this meteorite fell about 90 to 110 million years ago.

The Lake Murray Meteorite is the largest of its kind ever found in Oklahoma and now ranked as the fifth largest in the world.  At that time, it was considered the largest known specimen in the world. The farm was sold to the state of Oklahoma about the same time of the creation of Lake Murray State Park, for which the specimen was named.  One half of the specimen, also known as the main mass, was retained at Lake Murray, where it has been displayed at the Tucker Tower Museum since the early 1950s.  This particular piece once belonged to the Russian Academy of Science and comes with the document in the photos.

The weight of this piece is 63 grams.

The measurements are about 40x41x10mm.