> > http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/12/05/new22.html
> >
> > A rare type iron meteorite
> > Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)
> > December 4, 2004
> >
> > The Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies last week
> > confirmed that the object fallen at Pulasthipura was a rare type of iron
> > meteorite.
> >
> > After conducting X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry analysis and several
> > other tests, the institute has come to the conclusion that this rare
> > type of meteorite consists of elements Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Zn, according to
> > the institute.
> >
> > The object weighing 47.015 kg [Note: should be 'g' not 'kg']with a 4.75
> > specific gravity was fallen at Sankabodhi Viharaya, Pulasthipura,
> > Polonnaruwa on November 27 around 1.20 p.m. Yatigala
> > Upathissa Thera has seen a blue colour smoke tail when the
> > object came down. According to Principal, Research Scientist on
> > Space Applications of the institute, Dr. Chandana Jayaratne, though the
> > meteorite was shining with metallic bluish colour at the time it had
> > fallen, within a day it had encountered with the earth's atmosphere with
> > oxygen and its colour had become brownish black.