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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Sikhote-Alin

Penland
Specimen Catalog Number Locality Weight
Sikhote-Alin USNM 5750 Russia 57500.00 g
  • Sikhote-Alin
  • Iron (IIB)
  • Fell 1947, Maritime Territory, Russia
  • USNM 5750

Twenty three tons (over 23,000 kg) of fragments rained down on a Siberian forest in 1947 when a meteorite shattered in mid air. Even the largest pieces were too small to do more than gouge holes in the ground.

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