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| Basic information | Name: Aprel'sky This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Russia Mass:  54.6 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 343 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 48:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF APREL'SKY (АПРЕЛЬСКЙ) IRON METEORITE, USSR Name: APREL'SKY (АПРЕЛЬСКЙ). The place of fall or discovery: The village of Aprel'sky, Amur region, USSR. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, August 1969. Class and type: IRON, octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 54.6 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: A meteorite was recovered in goldbearing deposites and the geologist P. V. Pronin brought it to the Amur mining mills. In October the meteorite was turned over to the Commitee on Meteorites of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow). Source: Report of the chief geologist of Amur mining mills G. Krasnov September 10, 1969. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Aprel'sky 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. 48, Moscow (1969) reprinted Meteoritics 5, 85-109 (1970)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Amurskaya oblast', Russia This is 1 of 156 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Aprelskij (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||