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| Basic information | Name: Zhigansk This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1966 Country: Russia Mass:  900 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 343 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 60:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ZHIGANSK, USSR, IRON METEORITE Name: ZHIGANSK Place of find: About 250 km NE. of Zhigansk, Yakutsk ASSR, USSR. 68°0'N., 128°18'E. Date of find: 1966, recognized 1981 Class and type: Iron. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: Estimated to be 600-900 kg. Circumstances of find: Found by S.S. Jasak and V.M. Faber. A piece weighing 60 g was removed and its meteoritic nature confirmed. 17.2 g of this small piece is now in the collection of the Academy of Sciences and the recovery of the main mass is proposed. Source: R.L. Khotinok, Committee on Meteorites, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 60, Meteoritics 17, 93-97 (1982)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites from Respublika Sakha(Yakutiya), Russia (plus 2 impact craters) This is 1 of 156 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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