Derek Sears
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Bay Area Environmental
Research Institute/NASA Ames Research Center/University of Arkansas
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RESEARCH
ON METEORITES |
The Bokuslavka iron meteorite
fell in the Primorski Region, Siberia, at 11:47 am.
local time (Harbin) on October 18, 1916. The
population observed the usual sound and light phenomena and two masses fell 5
km north of the small village Boguslavka, 160 km
north of Vladivostok. The larger mass was 198.6 kg and the smaller mass was
58.1 kg. Some eyewitnesses claimed that a third fragment fell but was never
found. Bokuslavka is the second largest iron
meteorite seen to fall, the largest, Sikhote Alin, fell in the same region in 1947. |
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