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| Basic information | Name: Bocaiuva This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1965 Country: Brazil Mass:  64 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 157 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, ungrouped. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Ungrouped irons | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 62:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE BOCAIUVA, BRAZIL, IRON METEORITE Name: BOCAIUVA Place of find: Near the city of Bocaiuva, Minas Gerais, Brazil 17°7'S., 43°49'W. Date of find: 1965 Class and type: Iron. Anomalous, with silicate inclusions. 8.49% Ni, 19.5 ppm Ga, 178 ppm Ge and 2.9 ppm In Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 62 kg, approximately Circumstances of find: Found by a geological party from the Instituto de Pesquisas Radioactivas, Federal University of Minas Gerais. The mass is now in the Department of Physics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte Source: E. Galvao da Silva, Universidade de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte; J. Danon, Centro Brasiliero de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; J.T. Wasson, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 62, Meteoritics 19, 49-57 (1984)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 22 approved meteorites from Minas Gerais, Brazil (plus 2 unapproved names) This is 1 of 88 approved meteorites from Brazil (plus 6 unapproved names) (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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