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Here’s information (from the Meteorite Bulletin)
about this particular meteorite.
| Seymchan |
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| Basic information |
Name: Seymchan
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1967
Country: Russia
Mass: 323.3 kg
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Classification
history: |
| Meteoritical Bulletin: |
| (1968) | Iron |
| NHM Catalogue: |
| (2000) | IIE |
| MetBase: |
| (2006) | Iron-ung |
| Recommended: |
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| Pallasite, PMG
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This is 1 of 58 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Pallasite, PMG.
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| Comments: |
Reclassified van Niekerk et al. (2007)
Revised 26 May 2009: Revised pallasite classifications |
| Writeup |
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character
recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy.
DISCOVERY OF SEYMCHAN IRON METEORITE, USSR
Name: SEYMCHAN
The place of fall or discovery:
The meteorite has been found in a brook-bed flowing into the river of
Hekandue, a left tributary of the river of Jasachnaja of the Magadan
district, USSR.
Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, June 1967.
Class and type: IRON.
Number of individual specimens: 2.
Total weight: About 351 kg (about 300 kg and 51 kg).
Circumstances of the fall or discovery:
The larger specimen has been found by the geologist F. A. Mednikov
during a geological survey. The meteorite hardly seen was lying among
the stones of the brook-ebd. The smaller specimen was found at a
distance of 20 m from the first one by I. H. Markov with a mine detector
in october 1967. The main mass was turned to the Academy of Sciences of
the USSR.
Source: Report
of geologist F. A. Mednikov (Magadan, USSR) in a letter, VIII 15, 1967
and of V. 1. Zvetkov (Moscow, USSR) in a letter X 17, 1967.
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