Paper: Appleton Post Crescent
City: Appleton, Wisconsin
Date: Saturday Evening, April 28, 1923
Page: 74

HUGE, METEOR, LOST FOR CENTURY, IS FOUND AGAIN

By Associated Press

Buenos Aires - The whereabouts of an aerolite of great size, which was revealed to the Spanish conquerors by Indians about the middle of the seventeenth century, and of which traces have been lost since the year 1812, have again been ascertained, according to a communication received by Professor Clemente Oneilla, an Argentine naturalist, from a Senor Leberthon, who claims the rediscovery. The aerolite is located in the Province of Santiago del Estero, in the uninhabited Otumpa pampa, which is also known as "Sky Pampa," after the celestial origin of the stone.
Up to the year 1812 the situation of the aerolite was well known and from the minerals which constitutes its mass several flink-lock muskets were made. It was about the middle of the seventeenth century that the Spaniards, guided by the Vilelas Indians discovered the great meteorite mass, half buried in the sands. Reports say that a large portion was brought to Buenos Aires and a part sent to the British Museum.
After the war of Independence and the long period of formation of the Argentine nation had passed, several exhibitions were sent out to search for the aerolite. Other attempts were made in more recent times, and it was only this year that an attempt made by the authorities of Santiago de Estero province ended in failure.
According to certain analyses alleged to have been made in 1812, the meteorite was constituted of pure meteoric iron, nickel and cobalt.


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Not sure which meteorite this article is referring to. If someone has a good ideal, I would appreciate comment.

Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com


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