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| Basic information | Name: Dermbach This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1924 Country: Germany Mass:  1500 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 151 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 55:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE DERMBACH, GERMANY, IRON METEORITE Name: DERMBACH Place of find: Near Dermbach, Germany. 50°43'N., 10°07'E. Date of find: 1924 Class and type: Iron. Ni-rich ataxite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 1.5 kg Circumstances of find: A knobbly lump of iron, about the size of a fist, was found in 1924. It was the property of E. Keller of Dermbach who recognised it as meteoritic. On his death in 1969 the meteorite went, as part of the Keller Collection, to the Dermbach Museum. Source: G. Hoppe, 1976. Der Eisenmeteorit von Dermbach, ein neuer Ni-richer Ataxit. Chem. Erde 35, 305-316. See also Mineralog. Abs. 77, 3273. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Dermbach 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. 55, Meteoritics 13, 327-352 (1978)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from Thuringen, Germany (plus 3 unapproved names) This is 1 of 57 approved meteorites from Germany (plus 22 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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