Word: grootfontein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assistant Professor W. J. Luyten, of the Harvard University Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, has recently investigated and reported on the most massive meteorite known at present to astronomers, the Grootfontein Meteor, which fell at Grootfontein, in the Union of South Africa, it has been announced...
...would thus appear to be the largest meteorite known at present. The Greenland meteor brought back by Admiral Peary, and now reposing in the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, weighs 36 1-2 tons, considerably less than the Grootfontein specimen...
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