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in Iowa, US occurred on May 10, 1879. After a brilliant fireball had been seen, a shower of several large masses and many small fragments fell, totaling 320 kilograms (710 lb). The fall at Lowicz in Poland on March 12, 1935, yielded many (more than 50) fragments with a total weight of 59
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Fieber-Beyer, S. K., Gaffey, M. J., Kelley, M. S., Reddy, V., Reynolds, C. M., Hicks, T. (2011). The Maria
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kilograms (130 lb). The other observed mesosiderite falls occurred in 1842 at Barea (Spain), in 1880 at
Varamin (Iran), in 1933 at Dyarrl Island (Papua New Guinea), and at Patwar (India) in 1935. The legendary
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is a candidate for the parent body of the mesosiderites. However, a reliable delivery mechanism lacks for Psyche, and spectral analysis indicates the mesosiderites derive from the Maria
Asteroid Family
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and thought they had found an outcrop of a silver ore deposit. Later when an analysis was made and nickel-iron was found, the true nature as a meteorite was established. The meteorite was called
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with an irregular texture; silicates and metal occur often in lumps or pebbles as well as in fine-grained intergrowths. The silicate part contains
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223:Estherville mesosiderite
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248:Glossary of meteoritics
142:Chinguetti mesosiderite
335:10.1006/icar.1998.6037
194:At Vaca Muerta in the
965:Nonmagmatic meteorite
154:stony–iron meteorites
128:Total known specimens
1032:Ca–Al-rich inclusion
228:Chinguetti meteorite
371:Mesosiderite images
365:Mesosiderite images
327:1999Icar..137..140D
275:Karl K. Turekian.
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573:C ungrouped
488:Parent body
412:meteoritics
216:Vaca Muerta
208:prospectors
204:strewnfield
160:. They are
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85:Composition
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984:petrology
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719:Howardite
709:Diogenite
676:Winonaite
666:Lodranite
638:Primitive
592:Kakangari
579:Enstatite
535:Chondrite
444:impactite
420:Meteorite
235:16 Psyche
170:pyroxenes
117:sulphides
105:silicates
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671:Ureilite
619:Rumuruti
597:Ordinary
526:grouplet
429:Glossary
281:Page 112
242:See also
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174:feldspar
162:breccias
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109:pyroxene
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