Agpalilik (meteorite)

The iron meteorite at its current location in the courtyard of the Geological Museum Copenhagen

Cut surface on the meteorite

Agpalilik is the name of an iron meteorite weighing around 20 tons , which was found in 1963 by the Danish meteorite researcher Vagn Buchwald near Cape York on Greenland . This meteorite is still lying on the original transport sledge from 1963 in the courtyard of the Geological Museum in Copenhagen . It is one of numerous fragments of the Cape York meteorite .

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supporting documents

1. ↑ Fritz Heide: Brief Meteoritenkunde. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 3rd edition, 1988