Beautiful Specimen of a Sikhote Alin Meteorite
Maritime Territory, Federated SSR,
USSR
46°9’36”N., 134°39’12”E.
Class: Iron Meteorite. Coarsest
Octahedrite (IIB)
Fell: Februarty 12, 1947. 1038hrs
Total known weight: Over 23,000 kg
Notes: The fall of this meteorite
produced 106 impact holes up to 28 meters in diameter over an area of 100m x
660m in the thick forest of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains. Many fragments weighing up to
300kg in weight have been recovered.
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