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Basic information | Name: Tobychan This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Country: Russia Mass: 52.1 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 17 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIE. [show all] Search for other: IIE irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 51:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE TOBYCHAN, SIBERIA, IRON METEORITE Name: TOBYCHAN Place of find: The Tobychan River (Upper Indigirka River), Ojmakonski District, Yakutsk, USSR. Date of find: August 19, 1971 Class and type: Iron. Octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 52.1 kg Circumstances of find: The meteorite was recovered 1.7 m deep in goldbearing deposits, and it was brought to the "Indigirzoloto" Trust by the Director of the Gold Mine, N. S. Knishenko. In October of 1971 the Geologist-in-Chief of the Trust, J. Ja. Mokhov, gave it over to the collection of the Mineralogical Museum of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk, USSR. Source: V. S. Sobolev, Chairman of the Commission on Meteorites and Cosmic Dust, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk-90, USSR. | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 156 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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