The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical...
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largest known intact meteorite (as a single piece) and about twice as massive as the largest fragment of either the Cape York meteorite's 31-tonne Ahnighito...
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Cape York may refer to: Cape York (Greenland), a cape at the north-west coast of Greenland, in northern Baffin Bay Cape York meteorite, meteorite found...
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Campo del Cielo (redirect from Campo del Cielo meteorite)
single-piece meteorite masses recovered on Earth, following the 60-tonne Hoba meteorite and a 31-tonne fragment of the Cape York meteorite. In 1576, the...
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Meteoric iron (redirect from Meteoritic iron)
confirmed to be meteoritic in origin. The Inuit used parts of the Cape York meteorite to make lance heads. Fragments from the Gibeon meteorite were used for...
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discovery of the Cape York Meteorite fragments. In the Greenlandic language, the name of the settlement Savissivik on the island close to the cape means 'place...
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2024-09-04. "List of Strewnfield Members of Cape York". Meteoritical Bulletin Database. The Meteoritical Society. 2018-12-27. Retrieved 2024-09-07. Buchwald...
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expedition in 1894, he was the first Western explorer to reach the Cape York meteorite and its fragments, which were then taken from the native Inuit population...
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Meteorite Island (Danish: Meteorit Ø) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland. The Cape York Meteorite fell thousands of...
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massive Cape York meteorite fall found in Greenland, weighs 30,875 kilograms (34.034 short tons). The largest single-piece find remains the Hoba meteorite, which...
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from meteorites, for example Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger. The Inuit used the Cape York meteorite for a much longer time. Iron meteorites themselves...
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the Cape York Meteorite as a primary resource of Iron, using a technique called cold forging, which consisted in slicing a piece of the meteorite and...
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prey. Where available, they used and traded iron from meteorites such as the Cape York meteorite. The Classic Thule tradition relied heavily on the bowhead...
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the eleventh century. They used and traded iron from meteorites such as the Cape York meteorite. The earliest discovered Thule settlement is found in...
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Iron (section Meteoritic iron)
have been reported to use iron from the Cape York meteorite for tools and hunting weapons. About 1 in 20 meteorites consist of the unique iron-nickel minerals...
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Carlsbergite (category Meteorite minerals)
of the Agpalilik fragment of the Cape York meteorite in which the mineral was first described. It occurs in meteorites along the grain boundaries of kamacite...
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A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any...
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stretches between the two capes, the largest of which is Meteorite Island. Cape York meteorite Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute...
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(62 mi) to the north. A 48.6-kilogram (107-pound) fragment of the Cape York meteorite, discovered near Thule in the summer of 1955, is named for the town...
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harpoons, knives, ulus and other edged tools from pieces of the Cape York meteorite. Typically pea-size bits of metal were cold-hammered into disks and...
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alluding to the numerous meteorite fragments that have been found in the area dating to about 10,000 years ago. The Cape York meteorite is estimated to have...
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area of Greenland. Knowing that the Inuit had made tools from the Cape York meteorite, mainly due to Sir John Ross' discovery that the natives of Greenland...
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Rink Glacier. The terminus of the Peary Glacier lies to the east. Cape York meteorite Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p...
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2013). "Greenland Pt [platinum] anomaly may point to non-cataclysmic Cape York meteorite entry". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...
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weight of meteorites recovered exceeds 100 tonnes. Canyon Diablo – Associated with Meteor Crater in Arizona. Cape York – One of the largest meteorites in the...
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arrival, the group became the objects of study, together with the Cape York meteorite which Peary had brought. Franz Boas and the museum staff, at most...
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fictional, the native peoples of the Arctic do value meteorites (particularly the Cape York meteorite) as a source of iron for toolmaking. Sky-iron is described...
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American Museum of Natural History (redirect from New York Museum of Natural History)
section of the 200-ton Cape York meteorite which was first made known to non-Inuit cultures on their investigation of Meteorite Island, Greenland. Its...
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silicates such as feldspar and zeolites. The Agpalilik meteorite, a part of the Cape York meteorite weighing some 20 tons, can be seen in the museum courtyard...
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peoples, although there were also other sources of iron, like that from meteorites, which was occasionally worked using stone anvils. Copper Inuit Mapuche...
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