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| Basic information | Name: Parsa This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1942 Country: India Mass:  800 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 140 approved meteorites classified as EH3. [show all] Search for other: EH chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 3), and Enstatite-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 PARSA, INDIA, STONY METEORITE Name: PARSA Place of fall: Between Parsa and Paro, Muzaffarpur district, Bihar State, India. 25°54'N., 85°02'E., coordinates of Parsa. Date of fall: April 14, 1942. Class and type: Stone. Enstatite chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 800 g, approximately. Circumstances of fall: Two stones, weighing about 600 g and 200 g fell near Parsa and Paro respectively, on opposite sides of the Gandak river. Sources: Professor H. Bhandari, priv. comm. and N. Bhandari et al., 1975. Exposure and formation history of the Parsa meteorite based on fossil track and rare gas studies. Meteoritics 10, 362-363. | ||||||||||||||||
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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 11 approved meteorites from Bihar, India This is 1 of 144 approved meteorites from India (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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