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| Basic information | Name: Sanclerlandia This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Country: Brazil Mass:  279 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 338 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 58:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE SANCLERLANDIA, BRAZIL, IRON METEORITE Name: SANCLERLANDIA Place of find: Serra do Mangabal, Sanclerlandia, Goias State, Brazil. 16°30'S., 49°54'W., approx. co-ordinates of Anicuns. Date of find: October 5, 1971. Class and type: Iron. Medium octahedrite (1.0 mm). Group IIIA, 7.47% Ni, 18.6 ppm Ga, 36.4 ppm Ge, 7.1 ppm Ir. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 276 kg. Circumstances of find: Found during the mapping of the 'Serra do Mangabal' ultramafic complex, 500 metres from the road which runs from Sanclerlandia to Anicuns. Source: M.R. Ribeiro and A.P. Rodrigues, 1972. 0 meteorito sideritico de Sanclerlandia. BoL Mineral. Recife 2, 75. See also A. Kracher etal., 1980. Chemical classification of iron meteorites - IX. A new group (IIF), revision of IAB and IIICD and data on 57 additional irons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 44, 773. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 58, Meteoritics 15, 235-240 (1980)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 8 approved meteorites from Goias, Brazil This is 1 of 87 approved meteorites from Brazil (plus 6 unapproved names) (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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