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| Basic information | Name: Elga This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1959 Country: Russia Mass:  28.8 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 17 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIE. [show all] Search for other: IIE irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 16:
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DISCOVERY OF ELGA IRON METEORITE, USSR Name: ELGA The place of fall or discovery: one of the mine fields if the Indigirka Mining Administration of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. Date fall or discovery: FOUND, August 28, 1959. Class or type, IRON. The number of individual specimens: 1 [remainder missing from SI copy] | ||||||||||||||||
| Buchwald | The following entries were found for Elga in Buchwald (1975) [Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 16, Moscow (1960)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 9 approved meteorites from Respublika Sakha(Yakutiya), Russia (plus 2 impact craters) This is 1 of 153 approved meteorites from Russia (plus 5 unapproved names) (plus 19 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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