A piece of the Angra dos Reis Meteorite that fell on January 20, 1869 in Brazil. It is the type specimen of the Angrites and one of the rarest meteorites.
Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Open Access, publicdomain/zero/1.0; Mineralogy and Meteoritics, Yale University; https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-MIN-100948
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Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History; Open Access, publicdomain/zero/1.0; Mineralogy and Meteoritics, Yale University; https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-MIN-100948
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YPM MIN 100948
Angra dos Reis, Fell 1869-01-20Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Collections Search