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| Basic information | Name: Minamino This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1632 Country: Japan Mass:  1040 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 55 approved meteorites classified as L. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, Ordinary chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE MINAMINO, JAPAN, STONY METEORITE Name: MINAMINO Place of fall: Minami-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. 35°04'42"N., 136°56'E. Date of fall: September 27, 1632, about midnight. Class and type: Stone. Chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 1.04 kg Circumstances of fall: After the appearance of a fireball and detonations, a stone fell into a salt-field near the sea shore. The owner of the field, Rokubei Murase, saw the fall and recovered the meteorite soon afterwards. The stone was later presented to a Shinto shrine, Yobitsugi jinja, where it remained as a holy treasure. Permission to examine the stone was given to staff of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, in August 1976, when its meteoritic nature was confirmed. The stone remains in the Yobitsugi shrine. Source: S. Murayama, National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 14 approved meteorites from Chubu, Japan (plus 2 unapproved names) This is 1 of 58 approved meteorites from Japan (plus 12 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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