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| Basic information | Name: Etosha This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1970 Country: Namibia Mass:  110.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IC. [show all] Search for other: IC irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 ETOSHA, SOUTH WEST AFRICA, IRON METEORITE Name: ETOSHA Place of find: Etosha game reserve, NW of Tsumeb, South West Africa. Approximately 18°30'S, 16°E. Date of find: Not known. Class and type: Iron. Coarse octahedrite (IC). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 110.7 kg Circumstances of find: The meteorite was found by the Reverend Van Reysen near the Etosha game reserve, and presented to the University of Potchefstroom. Sources: C. Frick and E. C. I. Hammerbeck. 1973. Catalogue of South African and South West African meteorites. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of South Africa 57, 16. E. R. D. Scott and John T. Wasson. 1975. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, in press. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Etosha 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 2 approved meteorites from Owambo, Namibia This is 1 of 18 approved meteorites from Namibia (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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