[meteorite-list] Rare Type of Iron Meteorite Found in Sri Lanka

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Dec 5 22:27:20 2004
Message-ID: <200412060327.TAA19765_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/12/05/new22.html

A rare type iron meteorite
Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)
December 4, 2004

The Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies last week
confirmed that the object fallen at Pulasthipura was a rare type of iron
meteorite.

After conducting X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry analysis and several
other tests, the institute has come to the conclusion that this rare
type of meteorite consists of elements Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Zn, according to
the institute.

The object weighing 47.015 kg with a 4.75 specific gravity was fallen at
Sankabodhi Viharaya, Pulasthipura, Polonnaruwa on November 27 around
1.20 p.m. Yatigala Upathissa Thera has seen a blue colour smoke tail
when the object came down. According to Principal, Research Scientist on
Space Applications of the institute, Dr. Chandana Jayaratne, though the
meteorite was shining with metallic bluish colour at the time it had
fallen, within a day it had encountered with the earth's atmosphere with
oxygen and its colour had become brownish black.
Received on Sun 05 Dec 2004 10:27:15 PM PST