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The Meteorites of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá, Colombia (730,059) *
Author(s) -
Ramírez J. Emilio
Publication year - 1949
Publication title -
contributions of the meteoritical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 0096-2805
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1949.tb00073.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , confusion , humanities , art , geography , physics , astrobiology , psychology , psychoanalysis
In April, 1810, a large mass of nickel and iron was found by Cecilia Corredor, on Tocavita Hill, not quite a mile from the main square of the town of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Department of Boyacá, Republic of Colombia. It was recognized as a meteorite by two fellow travelers, Mariano de Rivero and Jean Baptiste Boussingault, in 1823, who found it in the local smithy, where it was doing duty as an anvil. The history of this and another inseparable meteorite, known as Rasgatá, is outlined from that time up to the present, and some suggestions are made to eliminate the confusion that has prevailed regarding these two meteorites. Finally, two large specimens of meteorites found recently near Santa Rosa de Viterbo are described.