242 grams. Iron, IIAB
TKW 162 kg. Fall not observed. Found 1883, Moreira do Lima, Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo District, Portugal.
  
José writes:
In 1877, in the course of agricultural works, an iron-nickel meteorite was found in S. Julião de Moreira, near Ponte de Lima, buried in the superficial layer of disaggregated granite, the meteorite was taken to Lisbon in 1883. With a more or less spherical shape, it had 0.91m minimum circumference and 1.07 maximum circumference. The fall undoubtedly occurred a long time ago, as the outer part was heavily altered, ferruginous in appearance. When it was discovered and recovered, the meteorite weighed 162 kg.
The whereabouts of most of the meteorite of S. Julião de Moreira is unknown, and there are several samples dispersed by museums around the world. In Portugal, there is a fragment with 0.49 kg in the Museu Alfredo Bensaúde, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, and there are pieces (shots) with a total weight of 0.11 kg. Although there is no identification tag, there is a fragment, similar to the first one, with a little more than 2 kg.
The sample was studied by several experts. John Wasson of UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences in 1969 conducted a detailed meteorite analysis that enabled him to classify it in the modern siderite terminology. It obtained a percentage of 6.1 of Ni and the values, in ppm, of 46.2 for gallium, 107 for germanium and 0,012 for iridium, which allows to say that it is a type II-B ferro-meteorite. In the structural classification of Buchwald, it is a rough octahedrite with bands of kamacite of width greater than 3,3 mm.
Source: David New - Jim Schwade - Jay Piatec -Sans Collection
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