Chinguetti meteorite
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chinguetti-meteorite-265-11977617
title:
Chinguetti meteorite
text:
The Chinguetti meteorite is a find reputed to come from a large unconfirmed 'iron mountain' in Africa. The existence of a huge stony-iron mesosiderite approximately 45 kilometers from the Saharan city Chinguetti, Mauritania, has been a mystery since 1916, when Captain Gaston Ripert, a French consular official, claimed to have discovered 'a huge iron hill 40 metres (130 ft) high and 100 metres (330 ft) long.' Ripert said that he had been guided blindfolded by a local chieftain to a natural source
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Alleged find near Chinguetti, Mauritania
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinguetti_meteorite
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date modified:
2024-02-21T13:52:54Z
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