Octahedrite, IIIA.
When European explorers encountered a tribe of Inuits in northwestern Greenland in 1818, they were astounded to find knife blades, harpoon points, and engraving tools made of meteoric iron. The meteorite was (re)discovered by Robert Peary in 1894.
Refs.:
- Bøggild (1927) Meddelelser om Grønland: 74: 11.
- Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 834pp.: 125.
- Kracher, A., G. Kurat, & V.f.Buchwald (1977): Cape York: The extraordinary mineralogy of an ordinary iron meteorite and its implication for the genesis of III AB irons, Geochemical Journal 11, 207-217 (1977)
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http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/meteors/article_122_2.asp14 entries listed. 14 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).
