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| Basic information | Name: Kediri This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1940 Country: Indonesia Mass:  3.3 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 2062 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L4. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE KEDIRI, JAVA, STONY METEORITE Name: KEDIRI Place of fall: On the Soemboer Wadoek rubber plantation, about 10 km south of the town of Kediri, eastern Java, Indonesia. 7°45'S,112°01'E (Kediri). Date of fall: Probably 1940. Class and type: Stone. Chondrite. Number of individual specimens: More than 70. Total weight: Not known. Circumstances of fall: Eyewitness accounts relate that a swarm of meteorites, travelling from north to south, fell in the Soemboer Wadoek rubber plantation around 1940; the workers on the estate collected 70 pieces of different sizes. Source: Dr. Carleton B. Moore, Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 7 approved meteorites from Jawa Timur, Indonesia This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites from Indonesia (plus 2 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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