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| Basic information | Name: Blumenau This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1986 Country: Brazil | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 82:
Blumenau Santa Catarina, Brazil Find date unknown Iron, fine octahedrite (IVA) A highly weathered iron meteorite of unknown mass was obtained by Francisco Rzataki, CODISC Companhia de Esenvolvimento Industrial de Santa Catarina; he sent a sample to Prof. Joel, University of Blumenau, in 1986. Classification and description (J. T. Wasson, UCLA; see also Aumond et al., 1994): fine octahedrite structure and preliminary compositional data on weathered material are consistent with the IVA group. Specimens: main mass with Rzataki; type specimens in MNRJ and UCLA are badly oxidized. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
MNRJ: Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20940-040, Brazil (institutional address; updated 26 Dec 2011) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from Santa Catarina, Brazil (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 87 approved meteorites from Brazil (plus 6 unapproved names) (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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