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Tambo Quemado
Location: Leoncio Prado
Ayacucho
Peru
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From my Personal Collection
Name: Tambo Quemado
Location: Leoneio Prado
Peru
Type: Ordinary Chondrite, H3-5
Location: Leoneio Prado
Peru
Type: Ordinary Chondrite, H3-5
A mass of 141 kilograms was brought to Lima in 1950. The following
information comes from the files of Dr. H.H. Hininger and Dr. C.B.
Moore. A mass, estimated to weigh 130 kilograms, was discovered - or
rather was reported - in 1949 by J. Ernesto Lanas del Castillo as being
in a remote part of the Andes Mountains. The location is given as near
the village of Tambo Quemado, in the district of Leoncio Prado. The
discoverer made arrangements to remove the mass but could accomplish
little himself, partly because of local native superstitutions and
partly due to interference from government authorities. As it turned
out, after considerable wrangling and to the full dissatisfaction of
the discoverer, the whole mass - except for a 108 gram slice, and later
a 1.36 kilogram wedge, which were forwarded to Dr. Nininger - ended up
in the Geological Museum in Lima. A part of the wedge came to the U.S.
in 1955. Jain & Lipschutz (1969) interpreted the internal structure
as the result of a cosmic event but, it is believed that the mass was
artificially reheated.
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