Country:
Russia
State/District:
Altay region, Kluchevskoj dist.
Date of fall/find:
Found 1967, spring
Total known weight:
54.2 kg
Number of pieces:
14
Type:
Ordinary chondrite H4
Shock stage: S2
Weathering stage: W1
Meteoritical Bulletin record: Click here
The meteorite was plowed up from the deep of 20-30 cm. Tractor drivers have broken the meteorite and small pieces have been taken by inhabitants. The larger part of the meteorite was brought in 1967 to the teacher on a pension. He gave the meteorite in a geological party. In 1969 the meteorite was turned over to the Commission on Meteorites of the Siberian department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.