[meteorite-list] NPA 04-28-1923 Huge Meteorite Found (Again)

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Appleton Post Crescent
City: Appleton, Wisconsin
Date: Saturday Evening, April 28, 1923
Page: 74

HUGE, METEOR, LOST FOR CENTURY, IS FOUND AGAIN

By Associated Press

     Buenos Aires - The whereabouts of an aerolite of great size, which was 
revealed to the Spanish conquerors by Indians about the middle of the 
seventeenth century, and of which traces have been lost since the year 1812, 
have again been ascertained, according to a communication received by 
Professor Clemente Oneilla, an Argentine naturalist, from a Senor Leberthon, 
who claims the rediscovery.  The aerolite is located in the Province of 
Santiago del Estero, in the uninhabited Otumpa pampa, which is also known as 
"Sky Pampa," after the celestial origin of the stone.
     Up to the year 1812 the situation of the aerolite was well known and 
from the minerals which constitutes its mass several flink-lock muskets were 
made.  It was about the middle of the seventeenth century that the 
Spaniards, guided by the Vilelas Indians discovered the great meteorite 
mass, half buried in the sands.  Reports say that a large portion was 
brought to Buenos Aires and a part sent to the British Museum.
     After the war of Independence and the long period of formation of the 
Argentine nation had passed, several exhibitions were sent out to search for 
the aerolite.  Other attempts were made in more recent times, and it was 
only this year that an attempt made by the authorities of Santiago de Estero 
province ended in failure.
     According to certain analyses alleged to have been made in 1812, the 
meteorite was constituted of pure meteoric iron, nickel and cobalt.

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Not sure which meteorite this article is referring to.  If someone has a 
good ideal, I would appreciate comment.

Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com