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| Basic information | Name: Cape York This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1818 Country: Greenland Mass:  58.2 t | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 351 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 28:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF CAPE YORK (AGPALILIK) IRON METEORITE, NORTHWEST GREENLAND Name: CAPE YORK (AGPALILIK). The place of fall or discovery: Agpalilik Peninsula, 125, km Southeast of Thule and 15, km North of the Savigsivik settlement, Melville Bay, Northwest Greenland. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, in the summer of 1963. Class and type: IRON, medium octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: Estimated 15 tons. Still not fully excavated. Dimensions: about 210 X 200 X 125 cm. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was discovered by Dr. Vagn Buchwald (Copenhagen, Denmark), during a study of the locality where the Greenland meteorites were previously discovered. It was 6 km to the west of the point where the two known specimens «Woman» and «Dog» were found and is undoubtedly a part of the Cape York meteorite shower. The meteorite lay on an ice-free slope 500 m from the shore and was partly covered with gneiss boulders. There was no crater and no crushing of rocks discovered. The meteorite has temporarily been left where discovered. The specimen found is the sixth from the Cape York meteorite shower. Dr. Vagn Buchwald has drawn up a summary of precise data on all the known specimens as of September 1963.
Report of Dr. Vagn Buchwald (Copenhagen, Denmark) in a letter, IX.20.1963. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Cape York 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. 28, Moscow (1963)
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Strewnfield: Click here to view 8 members Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Nordgronland, Greenland This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from Greenland (plus 1 unapproved name) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Agpalilik (In NHM Cat) Ahnighito (In NHM Cat) Akpohon (In NHM Cat) Anighito (In NHM Cat) Baffin's Bay (In NHM Cat) Davis Strait (From MetBase) Davis' Strait (In NHM Cat) Dog (From MetBase) Melville (In NHM Cat) Melville Bay (In NHM Cat) North Star Bay (In NHM Cat) Northumberland Island (In NHM Cat) Ross's Iron (In NHM Cat) Savik (In NHM Cat) Saviksue (In NHM Cat) Sowallick Mountains (In NHM Cat) Swallik (In NHM Cat) Woman (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||