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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: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||
Classification history: |
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 | ||||||||||||||||
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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. 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 . | ||||||||||||||||
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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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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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