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| Basic information | Name: Yardymly This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1959 Country: Azerbaijan Mass:  150.2 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 68 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IAB complex. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 16:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF AROOS IRON METEORITE SHOWER, USSR Name: AROOS. The place of fall or discovery: village of Aroos, Yardymlinsk District, Azerbaijan S oviet Socialist Republic, USSR. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, November 24, 1959, 7 hrs. 05 min. Moscow time (III belt). Class and type: IRON. The number of individual specimens: 5. Total weight: No. 1 (in order of discovery) 11.3 kg, No. 2 = 5.7 kg, No. 3 = 5.93 kg, No. 4 = 0.36 kg and No. 5 = 127.0 kg; total weight: 150.29 kg. The circumstances of the fall or discovery: The fall of the meteorite shower was accompanied by a bright, blinding flare brighter than solar illumination and a noise resembling rolling thunder. Through the clouds, eyewitnesses saw the bright bolide flying from southwest to northeast. The fall of the individual samples was accompanied by a whistling an drone similar to that made by a jet aircraft or missile. Source: TASS report and letter from G.F. Sultanov, Head of Astrophysical Sector of Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR, December 14, 1959, to the Committee on Meteorites Of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Writeup from MB 18: Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT AROOS IRON METEORITE SHOWER (See "The Meteoritical Bulletin" No. 16, 1960) A letter from academician M. Kashkai to E.L. Krinov dated February 23, 1960 reported that this meteorite shower has been named JARDYMLINSKY instead of AROOS according to Jardymly - village near that the most of the individual specimens have been collected. The name AROOS need consider as the synonym. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Yardymly in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 16, Moscow (1960) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 18, Moscow (1960)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Baku, Azerbaijan This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Aroos (In NHM Cat) Iardymlinskii (In NHM Cat) Jardymlinsky (In NHM Cat) Yardymlinskii (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||