Abstract

ABSTRACTThe total known weight of the Cape York, Greenland, sideritic fall, which includes 4 recovered individuals—“Ahnighito,” the Savik iron, “the Woman,” and “the Dog”—appears, in the light of the best available information, to be approximately 66 metric tons.The Savik iron (weight = 3402 kg.) and the Furnas County member (weight = 1073 kg.) of the Norton County, Kansas‐Furnas County, Nebraska; achondritic shower of 1948 February 18 raise to 68 the total number of known individual meteorites weighing 400 kg. or more.The largest recovered member of the Canyon Diablo, Arizona, sideritic fall (weight = 639 kg.) has recently been placed on permanent display in the new museum building on the north rim of the Barringer Meteorite Crater.

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