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For 200 years, the only meteorite from Colombia was the Santa Rosa iron which was reported by the famous Henry Augustus Ward, remembered as the “Museum Builder to America” (Fig. 6.1). He was an amateur rock hunter who came to Colombia and started to admire and protect that wonderful extraterrestrial iron specimen of about one ton.
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Acevedo, R.D., Rocca, M.C., García, V.M. (2014). Colombia. In: Catalogue of Meteorites from South America. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01925-3_6
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