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| Basic information | Name: Nagai This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1922 Country: Japan Mass:  1810 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
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 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE NAGAI, JAPAN, STONY METEORITE Name: NAGAI Place of fall: Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. 38°07'18"N, 140°03'42"E. Date of fall: May 1922, probably May 30, 1000 hrs. Recognized 1977. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: Only 1 recovered. Total weight: 1.81 kg Circumstances of fall: A stone fell into a water-covered rice field in front of three resting farmers. One of them, Mr. Tokusuke Inone, picked up the stone at once and kept it in his home for over fifty years. It is said that the stone came from the south-west, accompanied by detonations, and that three more stones were seen in the sky by the farmers. The stone is in the possession of Mr. Shinichi Inoue, the finders' son. Source: S. Murayama, National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 12 approved meteorites from Tohoku, Japan (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 58 approved meteorites from Japan (plus 12 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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