Seymchan Meteorite slab

Description

>>Seymchan Meteorite <<
Location: Russia
Dimensions: 117mm x 88mm x 2mm
Weight: 91 gramm
Meteorite Name: Seymchan
Country:  Seymchan, Magadan district, far east Russia.
Coordinates:  62° 54' N / 152° 26' E
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The main mass of 272.3 kilograms (600 lb) was found during a survey in June 1967 by geologist F. A. Mednikov. The mass was a triangular-shaped
thumbprinted
meteorite lying among the stones of the brook bed. A second specimen of 51 kilograms (112 lb) was found with a
mine detector
at a distance of 20 m from the first in October 1967 by I. H. Markov. The main mass was turned over to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
During a new expedition in 2004, Dmitri Kachalin recovered about 50 kilograms (110 lb) of new material. Remarkably, about 20% of the new specimens were found to contain
olivine
crystals, and so revealed the silicated nature of the meteorite. The pallasitic structure was not previously discovered during studies on small metal-only sections of the original mass.
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