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Tauti

Basic information

Name: Tauti
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 1937
Country: Romania
Mass: 21 kg

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 56	(1979)	L6
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	L6
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	L6
Recommended:			L6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 12583 approved meteorites (plus 8 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)

Comments:

Revised 4 Jul 2020: Corrected location

Writeup

Writeup from MB 56:
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FALL OF THE TAUTI, ROMANIA, STONY METEORITE

Name: TAUTI

Place of fall: Tauti, Oradea, Romania

46°43'N., 23°30'E.

Date of fall: July or August, 1937.

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6).

Number of individual

specimens: 3

Total weight: 21 kg

Circumstances of fall: After three explosions and a bright bolide, a 20 kg stone fell at Tauti and two other stones of about 0.5 kg each fell at Gura Suvelului, about 6 km south of Tauti.

Source: H. Savu, 1959. Meteoritul pietros de la Tauti (1937). Studii si cercetari de Geologie 2, 273-280.

Writeup from MB 109:

Tauti: corrected location

Lüttge-Pop et al. (2013) present corrected information on the fall coordinates as 46°17'N, 21°55'E .

Bibliography:

Lüttge-Pop D., Andrei R.J., and Har N. (2013) Historical Romanian meteorites: emendations of official catalogue records. Studia UBB Geologia, 58(2), 41-45 . (link)

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 109, in preparation (2020)

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos from the Encyclopedia of Meteorites:
Don Edwards
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
Woreczko Jan & Wadi

Geography:

Romania

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(46° 43'N, 23° 30'E)
Recommended::	(46° 17'N, 21° 55'E)

Note: the NHM and recommended coordinates are 130.7 km apart

Statistics:
This is the only approved meteorite from Arad, Romania
This is 1 of 10 approved meteorites from Romania (plus 2 unapproved names)

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