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The Tucson Ring meteorite is a brezinaite meteorite fragment, first described by Bunch and Fuchs. [2] It was reported as one of several masses of virgin iron found at the foot of the Sierra de la Madera and transported to the plaza of Tucson, Arizona circa 1850, where it was used as an anvil in a blacksmith's shop. [3]
Aug 7, 2024 · Just three years later the largest known ring-shaped meteorite in the world returned for the formal opening of the Flandrau Planetarium to help recognize the importance of Tucson to the astronomy community.
The Tucson Ring Meteorite was used for years as an anvil in the presidio blacksmith shop. The meteorite is now on display in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. In 1954, archaeologists from the University of Arizona discovered a Hohokam pit house underlying the Tucson Presidio.
A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and radiate energy.
May 10, 2009 · The Meteorite Men head south to Geoff's home state of Arizona and dig into the legend of the mysterious Tucson Ring — a giant iron meteorite found in the 1800s. Local lore insists that the Ring was only one of many meteorites hidden in the remote and dangerous Santa Rita Mountains.
May 10, 2009 · The Meteorite Men head south to Arizona and dive into the legend of the mysterious Tucson Ring — a giant iron meteorite discovered in the 1800s. Local lore insists that the Ring was only one of many meteorites hidden in the remote and dangerous Santa Rita Mountains.
TUCSON Meteorite. Iron with silicate inclusions, ungrouped. Found 1845. 31° 51' N., 110° 58' W. Tucson: a history revealed. Two masses of the Tucson meteorite were found, the ring-shaped Irwin-Ainsa mass and the paired, slab-shaped, Carleton mass.
