[meteorite-list] Rare Type of Iron Meteorite Found in Sri Lanka

[Michael Farmer]

Goodness, when it rains it pours, Nov 22 fall in Morocco, Nov 27 fall in Sri 
Lanka, an Iron to boot. Too bad that one will be untouchable.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Rare Type of Iron Meteorite Found in Sri Lanka


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> http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/12/05/new22.html
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> A rare type iron meteorite
> Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)
> December 4, 2004
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> The Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies last week
> confirmed that the object fallen at Pulasthipura was a rare type of iron
> meteorite.
>
> After conducting X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry analysis and several
> other tests, the institute has come to the conclusion that this rare
> type of meteorite consists of elements Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Zn, according to
> the institute.
>
> The object weighing 47.015 kg with a 4.75 specific gravity was fallen at
> Sankabodhi Viharaya, Pulasthipura, Polonnaruwa on November 27 around
> 1.20 p.m. Yatigala Upathissa Thera has seen a blue colour smoke tail
> when the object came down. According to Principal, Research Scientist on
> Space Applications of the institute, Dr. Chandana Jayaratne, though the
> meteorite was shining with metallic bluish colour at the time it had
> fallen, within a day it had encountered with the earth's atmosphere with
> oxygen and its colour had become brownish black.
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