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| Basic information | Name: Kaidun This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1980 Country: Yemen Mass:  2 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 186 approved meteorites classified as CR2. [show all] Search for other: Carbonaceous chondrites, Carbonaceous chondrites (type 2), and CR chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 60:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE KAIDUN, SOUTH YEMEN, STONY METEORITE Name: KAIDUN Place of fall: Near Kaidun [Khuraybah], South Yemen. 15°0'N., 48°18'E. Date of fall: December 3, 1980, 0445 hrs. U.T. Class and type: Stone. Carbonaceous chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 841.64 g Circumstances of fall: A fireball was observed travelling from NW to SE. and a single stone was recovered from a small impact pit. The fireball was seen from a position 150 km NNW. of the fall-site. The date of fall reported in SEAN Bulletin, 1981, 6, no. 4 (January 7, 1981) is in error. Source: R.L. Khotinok, Committee on Meteorites, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 60, Meteoritics 17, 93-97 (1982)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Hadhramaut, Yemen This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from Yemen | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Kaydun (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||