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| Basic information | Name: Chinga This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1913 Country: Russia Mass:  209.4 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 151 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, ungrouped. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Ungrouped irons | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 13:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Tuva (Тува). No such meteorite exists. The name Tuva (Тува) in all probability refers to the meteorite known as the Chinga (read Chinge, Чинге), given on p. 79 of the Catalogue. | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Chinga 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. 13, Moscow (1959)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Respublika Tyva, Russia This is 1 of 156 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Chinge (In NHM Cat) Tannu-Ola (In NHM Cat) Tannuola (In NHM Cat) Tchinge (In NHM Cat) Tschinga (In NHM Cat) Tschinge (In NHM Cat) Tuva (In NHM Cat) Urgailyk-Chinge (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||