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| Basic information | Name: Karasburg This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1964 Country: Namibia Mass:  12 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB?. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE KARASBURG, SOUTH WEST AFRICA, IRON METEORITE Name: KARASBURG Place of find: Farm Duurdrift Nord, District of Warmbad, 45 km NNE of Karasburg, South West Africa. 27°40'S, 18°58'E. Date of find: Not reported. Class and type: Iron. Medium octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: Not reported. Circumstances of find: The specimen is in the collection of the Johannesburg Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa. Source: V. F. Buchwald. 1969. "Bushman Land" and "Karasburg," two new iron meteorites from SW Africa. Meteoritics 4, 265 -266. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Karasburg in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Karasburg, Namibia This is 1 of 18 approved meteorites from Namibia (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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