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| Basic information | Name: South African Railways This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1938 Country: South Africa Mass:  47 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IVA. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, IVA irons, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 54:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS IRON METEORITE Name: SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS Place of find: Near the main railway line connecting Cape Town and Windhoek. Date of find: Before 1938. Class and type: Iron. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 47 kg Circumstances of find: Found by Mr. G.H. Dawson, then System Manager, South African Railways, Windhoek, and presented to the Geological Survey Museum, Pretoria. Source: C. Frick and E.C.I. Hammerbeck. Catalogue of South African and South West African meteorites. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of South Africa 57, 31. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 54, Meteoritics 11, 69-93 (1976)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 49 approved meteorites from South Africa (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Railway (In NHM Cat; MetBase says Gibeon) | ||||||||||||||||