Bacubirito meteorite

(Redirected from Bacubirito Meteorite)

The Bacubirito meteorite is the largest meteorite found in Mexico, the third largest in the Americas and the sixth largest in the world.[1] Found in 1863 by the geologist Gilbert Ellis Bailey[4] in the village of Ranchito near the town of Sinaloa de Leyva, it is an iron meteorite weighing between 20[1] and 22[2] tonnes. It measures 4.25 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 1.75 meters high.[1]

Bacubirito
The Bacubirito meteorite at the Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa
TypeIron
Composition88.94% Fe, 6.98% Ni, 0.21% Co, 0.005% S, 0.154% P, trace SiO2.[1]
CountryMexico
RegionSinaloa
Coordinates26°12′N 107°50′W / 26.200°N 107.833°W / 26.200; -107.833
Found date1863[2][3]
Alternative namesSinaloa, Ranchito
Related media on Wikimedia Commons

In 1959 the meteorite was moved from its original site to the Centro Cívico Constitución, in Culiacán. In 1992 it was again moved to the Centro de Ciencias de Sinaloa, where it is currently on display.

See also

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ a b c d "Meteorito de Bacubirito es el quinto más grande Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine", noroeste.com, accessed 2014-06-15
  2. ^ a b Bacubirito, Meteoritical Society, accessed 2014-06-15
  3. ^ Gerardo Sánchez Rubio (contrib.), Las Meteoritas de México, pub. UNAM, 2001, ISBN 9683693598, p.37, accessed on Google Books 2014-06-15
  4. ^ "Top 5 meteoritos" Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine, National Geographic, accessed 2014-06-15

Bibliography

edit

The great Bacubirito meteorite (J. British Astron. Assoc. 83, 380-382, 1973)