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| Basic information | Name: Itapuranga This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: unknown Country: Brazil Mass:  628 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 120 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-MG. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 58:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ITAPURANGA, BRAZIL, IRON METEORITE Name: ITAPURANGA Place of find: Curral de Pedro, Goias State, Brazil. 15°35'S., 50°9'W. Date of find: Not reported. Class and type: Iron. Coarse octahedrite (1.5 mm). Group IA, 6.7% Ni, 97 ppm Ga, 478 ppm Ge, 2.8 ppm Ir. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 6.28 kg. Circumstances of find: The mass was recovered from a hole in the ground. The place of find, the farm of Curral de Pedro, is 18 km from Itapuranga which is 200 km NW. of Goiania. The main mass is in Sao Paulo. Source: C.B. Gomes, University of Sao Paulo, private communication, 1980 and A. Kracher et al., 1980. Chemical classification of iron meteorites - IX. A new group (IIF), revision of IAB and IIICD and data on 57 additional irons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Aeta 44, 773. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 58, Meteoritics 15, 235-240 (1980)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 8 approved meteorites from Goias, Brazil This is 1 of 87 approved meteorites from Brazil (plus 6 unapproved names) (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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