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| Basic information | Name: Neptune Mountains This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1964 Country: Antarctica [Collected by National Science Foundation funded engineers] Mass:  1070 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 77 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IAB complex. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 34:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE MOUNTAINS IRON METEORITE, ANTARCTICA Name: NEPTUNE MOUNTAINS. The place of fall or discovery: The central part of the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mtns., Antarctica; φ = 83°15' S, λ = 55° W. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, February, 1964. Class and type: IRON, coarsest octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 1070 gr. Circumstances of fall or discovery:The meteorite probably had been glacially transported. It was found on a rock outcrop about 30 m. above the ice base of nunatake by engineers J. R. Heiser and D. C. Barnett, who were members of an expedition of the U. S. Antarctic Research Program of the National Science Foundation. Source: Report of Dr. Michael B. Duke (Washington, USA) in a letter, VI.28 1965. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Neptune Mountains 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. 34, Moscow (1965)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43352 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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