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| Basic information | Name: Pavel This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1966 Country: Bulgaria Mass:  2.97 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 10851 approved meteorites (plus 19 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Revised 18 Dec 2020: Corrected state/province | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 36:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF PAVEL STONY METEORITE, BULGARIA Name: PAVEL. The place of fall or discovery: Some hundreds metres of the village of Pavel, Northern Bulgaria; φ = 43°28' N, λ = 25°31' E. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, February 28, 1966, 14 hrs UT. Class and type: STONY, chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 2. Total weight: 2968.15 gr. including an individual sample weighing 2962 gr and a fragment of the other sample weighing 6.15 gr. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: Villagers working on the field heard a crash similar to a thunderstorm. One of the witnesses heard two peals. Some of them saw a dust trail directed from west to east. Then a boom and a very strong whistle followed which ended with a fall of a meteorite. The larger sample fell in the distance of several metres of the witnesses and it made a hole of irregular shape inclined from west to east and 30-35 cm deep in the arable soil. The soil was scattered around the hole in a radius of about 0.5 m. The meteorite has an irregular polyhedral form and it is all covered with a fusion crust and it has well developed regmaglypts. The meteorite is preserved at the Astronomical Observatory of the Sofia University (Bulgaria). Source: Report of Prof. N. I. Bonev (Sofia, Bulgaria) in a letter, March 14, 1966. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 36, Moscow (1966) reprinted Met. 5, 85-109 (1970)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria This is 1 of 7 approved meteorites from Bulgaria | ||||||||||||||||
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