Name: Cape York
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1818
Country: Greenland
Mass: 58.2 tons

DISCOVERY OF CAPE YORK (AGPALILIK) IRON METEORITE, NORTHWEST GREENLAND

Name: CAPE YORK (AGPALILIK).

The place of fall or discovery: Agpalilik Peninsula, 125, km Southeast of Thule and 15, km North of the Savigsivik settlement, Melville Bay, Northwest Greenland.

Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, in the summer of 1963.

Class and type: IRON, medium octahedrite.

Number of individual specimens: 1.

Total weight: Estimated 15 tons. Still not fully excavated. Dimensions: about 210 X 200 X 125 cm.

Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was discovered by Dr. Vagn Buchwald  (Copenhagen, Denmark), during a study of the loc­ality where the Greenland meteorites were previously discovered. It was 6 km to the west of the point where the two known specimens «Woman» and  «Dog» were found and is undoubtedly a part of the Cape York me­teorite shower. The meteorite lay on an ice-free slope 500 m from the shore and was partly covered with gneiss boulders. There was no crater and no crushing of rocks discovered. The meteorite has temporarily been left where disco­vered. The specimen found is the sixth from the Cape York me­teorite shower. Dr. Vagn Buchwald has drawn up a summary of precise data on all the known specimens as of September 1963.

Name

Weight

Found

Place

 

1. Ahnighito

31 tons

1984-1897

Meteorite Island

76°04'N - 64°58'W

2. Woman

3 tons

1984-1897

Saveruluk

76°09'N - 64°56'W

3. Dog

400 kg

1984-1897

Saveruluk

76°09'N - 64°56'W

4. Savik I

3.4 tons

1913

Savequarfik

76°08'N - 64°36'W

5. Savik II

7.8 kg

1961

Savequarfik

76°08'N - 64°36'W

6. Agpalilik

about 15 tons

1963

Agpalilik

76°09'N - 65°10'W

 

Report of Dr. Vagn Buchwald (Copenhagen, Denmark) in a letter, IX.20.1963.


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