SEYMCHAN 

 

Seymchan
Found 1967
Iron-ung / Pallasite
 

Specimen is a 2.69g slice



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Seymchan
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
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:   MB 43   (1968)   Iron
NHM Catalogue:   5th Edition   (2000)   IIE
MetBase:   v. 7.1   (2006)   Iron-ung
Recommended:       Pallasite, PMG    
Comments: Reclassified van Niekerk et al. (2007)
Revised 26 May 2009: Revised pallasite classifications
Writeup Writeup from MB 43:
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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