Dimmitt is a
meteorite
A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or Natural satellite, moon. When the ...
that fell in
prehistoric
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...
times in
The United States. It was named after the nearest town of
Dimmitt, Texas
Dimmitt ( ) is a city and county seat in Castro County, Texas, United States. Its population was 4,393 at the 2010 census.
History
Dimmitt is located on the old Ozark Trail, a road system from St. Louis, Missouri, to El Paso, Texas. The Ozark ...
.
History
The Dimmitt
strewn field is approximately from the locality of
Olton. Dimmitt is also currently one of 311 approved meteorites from Texas and one of 1801 approved meteorites from the United States.
There is currently a large collection of Dimmitt meteorites held in the Meteorite Collection of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics and in the
Oscar Monnig Oscar E. Monnig (September 4, 1902 – May 4, 1999) was an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics.
Private life
Monnig was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States. In 1925 he received a law degr ...
Collection.
References
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Meteorites found in the United States