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| Basic information | Name: Kayakent This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1961 Country: Turkey Mass:  85 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 343 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 40:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF KAYAKENT IRON METEORITE, TURKEY Name: KAYAKENT. The place of fall or discovery: Near the village of Kayakent, Turkey; φ = 39°15.8'N, λ = 31°46.8'E. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, April 1961; obtained April 20, 1967. Class and type: IRON. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 85 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was brought to Department of Astronomy of Ege University (Izmir, Turkey). Source: Report of Prof. A. Kizilirmak (Izmir, Turkey) in a letter, IV.25 1967. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Kayakent in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 40, Moscow (1967) reprinted Met. 5, 85-109 (1970)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Eskisehir, Turkey This is 1 of 26 approved meteorites from Turkey (plus 4 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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