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| Basic information | Name: Kiel This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1962 Country: Germany Mass:  738 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 13053 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L 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. FALL OF KIEL STONY METEORITE, WEST GERMANY Name KIEL. The place of fall or discovery: Kiel, West Germany: φ = 54°241 N; λ = 10°9'E. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, April 26, 1962; 12h45m UT approximately. Class and type: STONY, olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 737.6 gr. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite hit the roof of a house and made a hole about 10 x 10 cm. The tenant of the house, Mr. Eschmat, heard the noise. On the next day he found the stone in the attic. Prof. C. Hoffmeister points out that there were no observations whatever of the fireball or acoustic phenomena, which is very strange. He further points out that in the case of the Ramsdorf meteorite, July 26, 1958 (see the Meteoritical Bulletin,. No. 13, 1959), the optical and acoustic phenomena were insignificant. Source: Report of Prof. C. Hoffmeister (Sonneberg, GDR) in a letter, VII.23.1963. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 28, Moscow (1963)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany This is 1 of 57 approved meteorites from Germany (plus 22 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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