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| Basic information | Name: Ural This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1981 Country: Russia Mass:  9.4 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 191 approved meteorites classified as L~6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Revised 19 Jul 2019: classified | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 63:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE URAL, USSR, STONY METEORITE Name: URAL Place of find: Near the Ural settlement, Vargashskij District, Kurganskaya Region, USSR. 55°48'N., 66°0'E. Date of find: July 1981. Known since 1983. Class and type: Stone. Chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 9.4 kg Circumstances of find: The meteorite lay on the edge of a ploughed field, it was found by a farmer, L.A. Orlov, riding by on a bicycle. Source: R.L. Khotinok, Committee on Meteorites, USSR Academy of Sciences. Writeup from MB 108: Ural, classification Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) brown-stained, recrystallized matrix with poorly defined chondrules (0.4-1.5 mm, av. 0.7 mm) and few metallic specks. Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.61 Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~6, W3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 63, Meteoritics 20, 275-283 (1985) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Statistics: This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites from Kurganskaya oblast', Russia This is 1 of 156 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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