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| Basic information | Name: Kifkakhsyagan This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1972 Country: Russia Mass:  18.8 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 321 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 52:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE KIFKAKHSYAGAN, USSR, IRON METEORITE Name: KIFKAKHSYAGAN (Кифкахсяган) Place of find: Mount Kifkakhsyagan, Chukot Peninsula (Chukotskiy Poluostrov), USSR. 64.4°N, 172.7°W. Date of find: August, 1972 Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 18.8 kg Circumstances of find: The meteorite was found by geologist G. Lisin lying on a rocky surface on a slope of the mountain. Damage to the ground was absent. The specimen has a red-brown, badly weathered crust, and is probably very old. The specimen is now in the collection of the Committee on Meteorites, Moscow. Source: A. S. Mavrinsky, The Committee on Meteorites, The Academy of Sciences, Moscow. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 52, Meteoritics 9, 101-121 (1974)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 7 approved meteorites from Chukotskiy avtonomnyy okrug, Russia (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 148 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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