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| Basic information | Name: Desuri This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1962 Country: India Mass:  25.4 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 6826 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as H6. [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 DESURI STONY METEORITE, INDIA Name: DESURI. The place of fall or discovery: Desuri, Rajasthan, India; φ = 25°44'N, λ = 73°37'E. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, , July 18th, 1962. Class and type: STONY, olivine-bronzite chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 25.4 kg. (approximately). Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite fell over some branches of Euphorbia shrubs which were destroyed. The fall is reported to have made a pit nearly 61 cm. deep. The specimen, roughly. triangular in shape and having a charred surface, was collected by a forest ranger who sent a small chip (about 8 gms.) to the Director General Geological Survey of India. Source: An Artiole: P. K. Venkataraman, Ind. Minerals, v. 16, 3,304, 1962 and report of Dr. M. V. N. Murtby (Calcutta, India) in a letter, KLL23.1963. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 29, Moscow (1964)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 16 approved meteorites from Rajasthan, India (plus 4 unapproved names) This is 1 of 146 approved meteorites from India (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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