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Part of a huge fall that occured in February 1947 in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains NE of Vladivostok. This meteorite is a regular line and the image shows an example of the specimen, it is presented in a neat black display box with information leaflet.

The Sikhote-Alin meteorite fall was a massive impact event that occured on February 12th 1947, approximaetely 440km northeast of Vladivostok, Russia. The fall of this meteorite occured in the daytime, and was observed by many eyewitnesses. This observational data allowed V.G. Fesenkov, chairman of the meteorite communitee of the USSR academy of Science, to compute the orbit of the original body. It is most likely that the former orbt of the Sikhote-Alin meteoroid is similar to that of many other small bodies of the solar system. It is ellipse-shaped, and its point of greatest distance from the sun lies within the asteroid belt. This suggests that the creation of the meteoroid, and its subsequent passage to Earth, was precipitated by the collision of two asteroids. The Sikohite-Alin meteorite fell in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Primorye, Russia, near the village of Paseka (approximately 440km northeast of Vladivostok) on the morning of February 12th 1947. At around 10:30am that morning, witnesses reported a fireball greater than the sun that came out of the North and the deafening sound of the fall were observed for three hundred kilometrs around the point of impact.

Code Sterling (£) USD ($) Euro (€) Approx 6mm to 15mm RS6005 £9.95 $16.42 €10.94 Good Approx 15mm to 35mm RS6016 £19.95 $32.92 €21.94 Good

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