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| Basic information | Name: Zaisan This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1963 Country: Kazakhstan Mass:  463 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11567 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 29:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF ZAISAN STONY METEORITE, USSR Name: ZAISAN. The place of fall or discovery: Zaisan lake, East-Kazakhstan District, Kazakhstan SSR, USSR. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, December 18th, 1963, 11 hrs. Class and type: STONY, chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 463 gr. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: A. N. Gorskov being at the Zaisan lake, heard a detonation and noticed a dust trail in the sky. In about half a minute some noise resembling hissing was heard and a meteorite fall on the ice of the lake at a distance of approximately 50 metres from the observer. The meteorite is of polyhedral form, some of its surfaces being of the second kind, and it is covered with a fusion crust from all sides. The meteorite was turned over to the Committee on Meteorifes of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Source: Report of A. N. Gorskov (Zaisan, USSR) in a letter, 11.5.1964. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 29, Moscow (1964)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 25 approved meteorites from Kazakhstan (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Zaican (In NHM Cat) Zaisan Lake (In NHM Cat) Zaysan (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||