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| Basic information | Name: De Hoek This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1960 Country: South Africa Mass:  20.93 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 146 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 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE DE HOEK, SOUTH AFRICA, IRON METEORITE Name: DE HOEK Place of find: The farm De Hoek, a portion of Lanyon Vale 376 in the Hay district, 29 km ESE of Niekerkshoop, and almost 48 km NE of Prieska, Cape Province, South Africa. 29°23'S, '23°06'E.' Date of find: June, 1960. Class and type: Iron. Ataxite containing 10.0% Ni, chemically and structurally anomalous. Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 20.93 kg Circumstances of find: A mass weighing 3.83 kg was found in June 1960, and a second mass weighing 17.10 kg was found approximately 800 m SE of the first find on October 29, 1967. Enquiries established a possible date of fall as January 2, 1959. Source: C. Frick and E. C. I. Hammerbeck. 1973. Catalogue of South African and South West African meteorites. Bulletin of the Geologial Survey of South Africa 57, 15. E. R. D. Scott and John T. Wasson. 1975. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, in press. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for De Hoek in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites from Northern Cape, South Africa (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 47 approved meteorites from South Africa (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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