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| Basic information | Name: Egvekinot This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1970 Country: Russia Mass:  10 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 12 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IAB-sLM. [show all] Search for other: IAB complex irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 54:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE EGVEKINOT, USSR, IRON METEORITE Name: EGVEKINOT (ЗГВЕКИНОТ) Place of find: 50 km NE of Egvekinot, Chukotka, Magadan region, USSR. 66.6°N, 178.2°W. Date of find: July or August, 1970 Class and type: Iron. Fine octahedrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: About 10 kg. Circumstances of find: The meteorite was found by geologist V.T. Pereladov among alluvium in stream valley having glaciation traces. It was broken into parts and only the fragment weighing 2275 g was received by the Committee on Meteorites, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in 1975. Source: V.I. Tsvetkov, Committee on Meteorites, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 54, Meteoritics 11, 69-93 (1976)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 7 approved meteorites from Chukotskiy avtonomnyy okrug, Russia (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 153 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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