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| Basic information | Name: Bushman Land This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1933 or 1932 Country: South Africa? Mass:  3 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IVA. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, IVA irons, 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 BUSHMAN LAND, SOUTH AFRICA, IRON METEORITE Name: BUSHMAN LAND Place of find: On a farm in the Carnarvon district, Cape Province, South Africa. 30°59'S, 22°08'E. (Carnarvon). Date of find: Around 1933. Class and type: Iron. Fine octahedrite (IVA). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 2.865 kg Circumstances of find: Not known. Source: V. F. Buchwald. 1969. "Bushman Land" and "Karasburg," two new iron meteorites from SW Africa. Meteoritics 4, 265-266. R. Shaudy, J. T. Wasson and V. F. Buchwald. 1972. A reinvestigation of irons with Ge concentrations lower than 1 ppm. Icarus 17 174-192. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Bushman Land 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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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Northern Cape?, South Africa? This is the only approved meteorite from South Africa? | ||||||||||||||||
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