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| Basic information | Name: Lazarev This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1961 Country: Antarctica [Collected by Soviet geologists] Mass:  10 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 150 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, ungrouped. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Ungrouped irons | ||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 20:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF LAZAREV IRON METEORITE. ANTARCTIDA Name: LAZAREV. The place of fall or discovery: South of Lazarev station (USSR) on the southern spurs of Humboldt Mts, Antarctida: φ = 11°30' N Long.; λ =71°57' S. Lat. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, January 21, 1961. Class and type: IRON. The number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: approximately 10 kg; sizes 15 x 10 cm. The circumstances of the fall or discovery: found by Prof. M.G. Ravich and B.I. Revnov, Soviet geologists, at an altitude of 3000 m above sea level. The meteorite, which on falling split in to two fragments weighing about 8 and 2 kg lying next to each other, was found on the surface of broken stone and sand talus together with fragments of local rocks in the foothills of nunatak at a distance of 35 to 40 m from the fringe of the glacial sheet. Sources: Radiogram from the MS "Ob "' received at the Committee on Meteorites of the USSR Academy of Sciences along with a letter from E. Tolstikov, Assistant Chief of the Central Administration of the Northern Sea Route, dated March 6, 1961. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Lazarev in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 20, Moscow (1961)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 43857 approved meteorites from Antarctica (plus 3802 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||||
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