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| Basic information | Name: Okabe This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1958 Country: Japan Mass:  194 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 10985 approved meteorites (plus 20 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 14:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF OKABE METEORITE, JAPAN Name : OKABE The place of fall or discovery: Okabe-mura, Osato-gun, Saitama prefecture (about 80 km northwest from Tokyo city), Japan; φ = 36°11' N; λ =139°13' E of Greenwich. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, November 26, 1958, About 15 hrs. Class and type: STONE (probably chondrite?) The number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 194 g. The circumstances of fall or discovery: The meteorite fall was accompanied with a bright fireball, flying from south to north direction over the south Kanto district, The fireball was observed by many people from Kahagawa, Saitama, Tokyo and Nagano prefectures. Some of the eye-witnesses heard a detonation. The meteorite fell in a few meters from a farmer Masao Yamazaki, was working with his father in the field. The meteorite have a size 7 x 4 x 4 cm and it is covered with, a black fusion, crust Source: A letter from Dr, S. Murayama to E.L. Krinov dated March 26, 1959. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 14, Moscow (1959)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 8 approved meteorites from Kanto, Japan (plus 4 unapproved names) This is 1 of 57 approved meteorites from Japan (plus 12 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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