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TALAMPAYA
San Juan, Argentina
Fell in the Winter of 1995 - Eucrite

Collection No. B146.1 - a 30.58 gram block with glassy fusion crust, typical of a fresh eucrite.

Provenance: The Macovich Collection (Darryl Pitt); by transfer to The Micahel Farmer Collection; by transfer to The David Schultz Collection.

Historical Notes: The sonic boom from Talampaya purportedly frightened a mountain climber in the Andes. He later recovered a single 1.4 kilogram meteorite.

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