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We report the results of the study of a meteorite that impacted an inhabited zone on 15 September 2007 in the neighborhood of the town of Carancas, Puno Region, about 1,300 km south of Lima. The analysis carried out by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffractometry and transmission Mössbauer spectroscopy (at room temperature and at 4.2 K), reveal the presence in the meteorite sample of magnetic sites assigned to taenite (Fe,Ni) and troilite (Fe,S) phases, and of two paramagnetic doublets assigned to Fe2 + , one associated with olivine and the other to pyroxene. In accord with these results, this meteorite is classified as a type IV chondrite meteorite.
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Cerón Loayza, M.L., Bravo Cabrejos, J.A. Characterization of the Carancas–Puno meteorite by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffractometry and transmission Mössbauer spectroscopy. Hyperfine Interact 203, 17–23 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-011-0365-x
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