* Astronomy

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.
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In April, 1810, a large mass of nickel and iron was found by Cecilia Corredor, on Tocavita Hill, not quite a mile from the main square of the town of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Department of Boyacá, Republic of Colombia. It was recognised as a meteorite by two fellow travelers, Mariano de Rivero and Jean Baptiste Boussingault, in 1823, who found it in the local smithy, where it was doing duty as an anvil. The history of this and another inseparable meteorite, known as Rasgatá, is outlined from that time up to the present, and some suggestions are made to eliminate the confusion that has prevailed regarding these two meteorites. Finally, two large specimens of meteorites found recently near Santa Rosa de Viterbo are described.
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