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| Basic information | Name: Orimattila This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1974 Country: Finland Mass:  1872 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 6426 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 53:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE ORIMATTILA, FINLAND, STONY METEORITE Name: ORIMATTILA Place of find: Mallusjoki village, Orimattila area (socken), south Finland. 60°35'N, 25°35'E. Date of find: Summer, 1974. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 1872 g Circumstances of find: A farmer, Keijo Virtanen, while digging for water in moraine gravel, found the stone about 1 meter below the surface. He sent the rusty stone as a possible ore specimen to the Outokumpu Mining Company, where it was identified as a meteorite by Mr. Y. Vuorelainen. Source: Dr. H. B. Wiik, Otnas, Finland. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 53, Meteoritics 10, 133-158 (1975)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Uusimaa, Finland This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites from Finland (plus 11 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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