Santa Rosa de Viterbo Meteorite
| Aerolito de Santa Rosa de Viterbo | |
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A 411 kilogram fragment of the meteorite at the Colombian National Museum | |
| Country | Colombia |
| Region | Boyacá |
| Observed fall | No |
| Found date | 1810 |
| TKW | >700 kilograms (1,500 lb) |
 Santa Rosa de Viterbo in northcentral Boyacá, the town of the meteorite fall | |
The Santa Rosa de Viterbo Meteorite was found in 1810, in the Tocavita Hill, near the town that holds the same name in the northcentral area of Boyacá, Colombia.[1]
History
In early 1810, on a Holy Saturday, a women named Cecilia Corredor found the meteorite near the town in the Tocavita Hill. It was moved to the urban center of Santa Rosa de Viterbo where it served as an anvil in the town's iron foundry for a long time. On 8 September 1877, the Town's Mayor at the time had the meteorite placed on a stone column and exhibited on the town's central park. During the presidency of Rafael Reyes Prieto, the meteorite was moved to Bogotá and was divided into two pieces; one piece got placed in the National Museum of Colombia and the other in foreign museums.[2] On a later time, jesuits found 3 more fragments of the same meteorite.
Specimens
When the meteorite got first removed from Santa Rosa de Viterbo's main plaza and taken to Bogotá, it was divided into two pieces. One piece, that is of 411 kilograms, remained in Bogotá and got placed at the National Museum of Colombia where it remains while the other was taken abroad to be desplayed in other museums.[3] The other fragments found are curated mainly at the Pontifical Xavierian University, the National University of Colombia, and La Salle University.[4]
References
- ↑ "REGRESO EL AEROLITO: - Archivo - Archivo Digital de Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo desde 1.990". Eltiempo.com. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
- ↑ "Nuestro Municipio". Santarosadeviterbo-boyaca.gov.co. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140725212106/http://190.26.211.126/paginaindependientesnoviembre06aerolitodesantarosadeviterbo. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2014. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "200 años de la caída de los Meteoritos de Santa Rosa de Viterbo" (PDF). Astrolabio.phipages.com. Retrieved 2015-05-20.