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Kargapole | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Kargapole This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1961 Country: Russia Mass: 21.8 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 6484 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 28:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF KARGAPOL'E. STONY METEORITE, USSR. Name: KARGAPOL'E. The place of fall or discovery: 5 km to the south-east of the village of Osinovka and 12-13 km to the north-east of the Kargapol'e RR station, Kargapol'e District, Kurgan Region, USSR. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, July 1961. Class and type: STONY, chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 21.8 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was found by a local resident during haying. The meteorite was broken into two uneven parts with a sledge hammer and left in a shed; only in July 1963 they were brought by I. A. Yudin to the Urals Geological Museum (city of Sverdlovsk, USSR). The meteorite nature of the stone was determined by I. A. Yudin and S. I. Smyshlyaev. The regmaglipts and fusion crust observed on the meteorite show changes due to weathering. Source: Report of Dr. I. A. Yudin, Scientific Secretary of the Commission on Meteorites of the Urals Branch of the Mineralogical Society of the Soviet Union in a letter, VI I.20.1963. | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 28, Moscow (1963)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites from Kurganskaya oblast', Russia This is 1 of 156 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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