page_title: Hart, Texas
section_title: Planetary Science
hierarchical_section_title: Hart, Texas / Planetary Science
caption_attribution_description: English: 2.662 Gram Slice of the "Hart" (Texas) Meteorite, a CK3, S2 Carbonaceous Chondrite. Courtesy of Keith D. Lemons Meteoritical Collection
context_page_description: Hart is a city in Castro County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,114 at the 2010 census.
context_section_description: A rare type of meteorite unique to the Western Hemisphere was discovered near Hart in March 2010. A field worker found a single, large, dense brownish stone weighing 966 grams beside a road located 0.25 miles from the town of Hart. The meteor was subsequently purchased by a collector. The stone was analyzed at the University of Washington and was classified as a Carbonaceous Chondrite (CK3), the most massive example of one of 25 known specimens in the world.  The finding was published in The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 101 (2013) MB 101 with the meteorite being given the official name of "Hart".
caption: 2.662 Gram Slice of "Hart" (Texas) Meteorite,  a CK3, S2 Carbonaceous Chondrite.
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