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Basic information | Name: Odessa (stone) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1960 Country: Ukraine Mass: ![]() | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 6340 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) | ||||||||||||||||
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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. DISCOVERY OF ODESSA STONY METEORITE, USSR Name: ODESSA. The place of fall or discovery: The Outskirts of the town of Odessa, Odessa Distzict, USSR;. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, June 1960. Class and type: STONY, chondrite. Number of individual specimens:1. Total weight: 1926 gr. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite has an oriented (round loafed) form and it is coveread with a fusion crust on all sides. It was lying on the surface of the ground and its convex side was being up. The meteorite was noticed and picked up by I. S. Baranenko. He turned the meteorite over to the Odessa Astronomical Observatory from which it was brought to the Committee on Meteorites, Ac. Sc. (Moscow, USSR). Source: Report of V. A. Smirnov (Odessa, USSR) in a letter, 1.26.1964 | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 29, Moscow (1964)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from Odessa, Ukraine This is 1 of 45 approved meteorites from Ukraine (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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