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Meteorite Muslyumovo - traveling with Google Earth

Meteorite Muslyumovo

Name: MUSLYUMOVO

Place of find: 12 km north of the Muslyumovo settlement, Muslyumovskij District, Tatar ASSR, USSR.

55°18'N., 53°12'E.

Date of find: May 10, 1964, known since 1983.

Class and type: Stone. Chondrite.

Number of individual

specimens: 1

Total weight: 10.58 kg

Circumstances of find: The meteorite became stuck between the teeth of a harrow. It was found by a farmer, G.M. Magdeev, and passed over by a farmer, R. Kh. Garipov.

Source: R.L. Khotinok, Committee on Meteorites, USSR Academy of Sciences.

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