|
|
|
|
Copyright (c) Hanno Strufe.
|
1200 grams. 1 of only 11 classified as Iron, IC
TKW 5.36 tons. Fall not observed. Found 1784, Bahia, Brazil.
From Buchwald:
A large mass, later shown to weigh 5.36 tons, was found in 1784 by a boy named Bernardino da Motta Botelho, as he was tending his cattle on the slopes above the small river Bendeg6; the site is located 35 km north-northeast of Monte Santo and about 250 km from the nearest coast. It lies in the semi-arid backlands, the Brazilian sertao, a region of uncertain rainfall which presents great obstacles to settlement and economic development. As the mass was believed to be silver, 30 men with 20 pair of oxen made an attempt to remove the meteorite in 1785. However, they had to abandon the task after the primitive wheelcart went out of control down the. slope; an axle caught fire, and the meteorite and its carriage buried themselves in the dry riverbed, only 180m from where the journey had begun.
   
Hanno writes:
From my trip to the Paris Museum last December.
Visit My Web Site |
Click to view larger photos
#1
|
Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
|
|
| |
Bernd Pauli
2/7/2018 2:20:05 AM |
ZUCOLOTTO M.E. et al. (1999) The Bendeg* iron (M! Nov. 1999, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 36-39). |
| |
|