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| Basic information | Name: Kabakly This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1965 Country: Turkmenistan Mass:  71.6 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 6459 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 45:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF KABAKLY (КАБАКЛЫ) STONY METEORITE, USSR Name: KABAKLY (Кабаклы). The place of fall or discovery: In a desert, west-north-west from the village Kabakly, Dejnau district, Turkmen SSR, USSR. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, 1965. Class and type: STONY, chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 71.6 g. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was found accidentally by the veterinary technician B. V. Podlipalin. It was lying at the bottom. of the hole having the diameter of 30-40 cm and the depth of 10-15 cm which was formed in sands. The meteorite was turned over to the Committee on Meteorites of the Acad. of Sc. (Moscow, USSR) of November, 1968. Source: Reports of A. A. Bojarschikov in a letter XI 5, 1968 and B. V. Podlipalin in a letter XII 21, 1968. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 45, Moscow (1969) reprinted Met. 5, 85-109 (1970)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Chardzhou, Turkmenistan This is 1 of 6 approved meteorites from Turkmenistan | ||||||||||||||||
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