CAP YORK 

 

Cap York

Iron, Octahedrite

Group IIIAB
Specimen from the AGPALILIK mass (1963)

Specimen is a 2.59g slice



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Cape York
Basic information 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
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:   MB 28   (1963)   Iron
NHM Catalogue:   5th Edition   (2000)   IIIAB
MetBase:   v. 7.1   (2006)   IIIA
Recommended:       Iron, IIIAB    
Writeup Writeup from MB 28:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy.
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.
Buchwald The following entries were found for Cape York in Buchwald (1975)
[Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]

 

 
 

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