Cape York Meteorite

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5378. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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An iron meteorite that fell at Cape York in northern Greenland. Its fragments total 58 tonnes, making it the second largest meteorite known. The largest fragment (30.9 tonnes), known to the local people as Ahnighito, had been used by them as a source of iron before the explorer Robert Peary visited the region. He shipped Ahnighito, together with two other fragments—`the Woman' (3 tonnes) and `the...

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