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| Basic information | Name: Ellisras This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1970 Country: South Africa Mass:  2.07 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 102 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as Iron. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 61:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ELLISRAS, SOUTH AFRICA, IRON METEORITE Name: ELLISRAS Place of find: On Ventershoek 579 LQ farm, about 27 km SE. of Ellisras village, Transvaal, South Africa. 23°50'S., 27°55'E. Date of find: 1970, approximately; recognised 1981 Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite, medium. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 2.066 kg Circumstances of find: Found by R. Liversage on the farm. It is now in the Department of Geology, University of Pretoria. Source: B.M. French, 7408 Wyndale Lane, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20015, USA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 61, Meteoritics 18, 77-83 (1983)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Northern, South Africa This is 1 of 49 approved meteorites from South Africa (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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