Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000lpico.997...48m&link_type=abstract
Workshop on Extraterrestrial Materials from Cold and Hot Deserts, p. 48
Physics
Iron Meteorites, Africa, Histories, Nickel, Ataxite, Namibia, Egypt
Scientific paper
Africa, is among the richest of continents in meteorites from hot deserts. Namibia is the site of the world's largest individual meteorite, the 60-ton Hoba Ni-rich ataxite, and the largest known meteorite strewn field, that of the Gibeon fine octahedrite. In Egypt, history goes back at least as far as approx. 1340 B.C when an iron dagger with a small content of nickel was placed in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. History also comes up-to-date in northern Africa with recoveries in recent years of thousands of meteorites in the reaches of the Sahara from Libya to Mauretania. This paper will review the histories of three exceptional meteorites from southern Africa.
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