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Chisenga | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Chisenga This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1988 Country: Malawi Mass: 3.92 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 341 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 72:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Chisenga Chitipa District, Malawi Fell in the afternoon of January 17, 1988 Iron. Coarse octahedrite (1.5 mm kamacite bandwidth) The fall was eye-witnessed by a woman who was 12.5 m away from the landing site; it was accompanied by a loud explosion. A mass of 3.92 kg was recovered by the police from a hole 30 cm deep. The landing site is about 50 km from Chitipa Boma, for which the coordinates are given. Classification and analysis, 6.2% Ni, 0.6% Co, 136 ppm Ag, 68 ppm Zn, 0.1 ppm Au, 0 ppm As, L. S. Chapola, Geological Survey Department, P. O. Box 27, Zomba, Malawi; published in J. African Earth Sci. 12, 1991, 533-536. The main mass is at the National Museum of Malawi. Information, A. L. Graham, The Natural History Museum, London, UK. | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 72, Meteoritics 27, 109-117 (1992)
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Northern, Malawi This is 1 of 6 approved meteorites from Malawi | ||||||||||||||||
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