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Sverdlovsk
Basic information Name: Sverdlovsk
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1985
Country: Russia
Mass:help 4.5 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 66  (1988)  H4-5
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  H4-5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  H4/5
Recommended:  H4/5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 499 approved meteorites classified as H4/5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
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Writeup from MB 66:
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Sverdlovsk

Kamyshlov district, Sverdlovsk region, USSR

Found October 1985

Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4-5).

A single 4.5 kg mass was found by V. F. Korotaev in the Kamyshlov district, USSR, not far from the Kamyshlov-Irbit road. (R. L. Khotinok, Committee on Meteorites, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR)

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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 66, Meteoritics 23, 171-173 (1988)
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Geography:

Russia
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (57° 0'N, 62° 42'E)
     Recommended::   (57° 0'N, 62° 42'E)

Statistics:
     This is the only approved meteorite from Sverdlovskaya oblast', Russia (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 156 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters)
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