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| Basic information | Name: Tsarev This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1968 Country: Russia Mass:  1.23 t | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 8604 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 59:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE TSAREV, USSR, STONY METEORITE Name: TSAREV Place of fall: Near Tsarev village, Volgograd district, USSR. 48°42'N., 45°42'E. Date of fall: December 6, 1922, 0700 hrs (?), found 1968, recognized 1979. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L5). Number of individual specimens: 28 Total weight: 1131.7 kg Circumstances of find: Found in fields, the first few specimens were found by B.G. Nikiforov. The largest mass weighs 284 kg, the smallest 761 g. The greatest distance between the find sites was 6.0 km. Source: R.L. Khotinok, Committee on Meteorites, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 59, Meteoritics 16, 193-199 (1981)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites from Volgogradskaya oblast', Russia This is 1 of 153 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Tzarev (Misspelling in literature. Added by Ed Apr 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||