Home    Meteorites  Stone    Iron    Stony-Iron        Books         Supplies        Contact          About        Links

 

Iron Meteorites

Sikhote Alin - Click to enlarge
81.5 grams

 

Sikhote Alin
Fell 2/12/1947 at 10:30 am local time in Primorye, Russia.
Over 28 metric tons fell that morning in the isolated Sikhote- Alin Mountains. This meteorite is an IIAB iron meteorite with a coarsest Octahedrite structure. These meteorites exhibit's the classic regmaglypts or thumbprints caused by the ablation of material during the flight in

 

Green cube measures 1 centimeter

 

©2011 d'jar Meteorites

Home    Meteorites     Iron Meteorites     Stone Meteorites     Stony-Iron Meteorites

Supplies     Books      About d'jar Meteorites      Contact      Links