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| Basic information | Name: Shibayama This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Japan Mass:  235 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12780 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. DISCOVERY OF THE SHIBAYAMA, JAPAN, STONY METEORITE Name: SHIBAYAMA Place of find: Sanbu-gun, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. 35°45'54"N., 140°24'36"E. Date of find: 1969 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 235 g Circumstances of find: Found about 50 cm below ground level by a farmer, Mr. Akira Ishii, and brought to the National Science Museum, Tokyo, by his grandson, Mr. Susumu Ito, who suspected it to be a meteorite. 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 9 approved meteorites from Kanto, Japan (plus 4 unapproved names) This is 1 of 58 approved meteorites from Japan (plus 12 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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