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| Basic information | Name: Andreevka This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1969 Country: Ukraine Mass:  600 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 811 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as L3. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3) | ||||||||||||||||
| 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. FALL OF THE ANDREEVKA, USSR, STONY METEORITE Name: ANDREEVKA (АНДРЕЕВКА) Place of fall: The village of Andreevka, Slaviansky district, Donetz region, USSR. 48.7°N, 37.5°E. Date of fall: August 7, 1969, about 7 p.m. Moscow time. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: About 0.6 kg Circumstances of fall: A meteorite made a hole in a slate roof of a house and fell on the floor of the garret. It was picked up by an owner of the house. The meteorite was broken. The largest fragment weighing 150 g is in the Donets Museum of Regional Studies. Sources: A.A. Yasinskaya, E.G. Osadchij, N.V. Buturlinov and G.A. Micheev. 1973. The new meteorite Andreevka. Meteoritika No. 32, 100-102. E.G. Osadchy. 1973. The Andreevka meteorite fall. Meteoritika No. 32, 160-161. | ||||||||||||||||
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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 6 approved meteorites from Donetsk, Ukraine This is 1 of 45 approved meteorites from Ukraine (plus 7 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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