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| Basic information | Name: Galkiv This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1995 Country: Ukraine Mass:  5 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6412 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 81:
Galkiv Chernigov region, Ukraine Fell 1995 January 12, 11:30 local time Ordinary chondrite (H4) A 5 kg stone was recovered in a grassy marshland by V. M. Leo-nenko after a sonic boom was heard. Classification and mineralogy (V. P. Semenenko and A. L. Girich, Dept. Cosmoecology and Cos-mic Mineralogy, SSREU): olivine, Fa17.4–19.5 (percent mean devia-tion (PMD) = 2); pyroxene, Fs8.3–21.9 (PMD = 7); texture and low PMD values indicate petrologic type 4. Specimens: type specimen, SSREU; main mass, NASU. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
SSREU: State Scientific Centre of Environmental Radiogeochemistry, Na-tional Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Palladina 34, Kyiv-142, 252 180, Ukraine (institutional address) NASU: National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,st. B. Hmelnitskogo 15, Kyiv - 30, 01030 , Ukraine (institutional address; updated 22 May 2019) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from Chernigov, Ukraine This is 1 of 45 approved meteorites from Ukraine (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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