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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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