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MUONIONALUSTA METEORITE!!!
Beautiful Block Cut!!!
Multiple Etched Faces!!!
Exquisite Bright Etch!!!
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Classification: Iron, IVA / Fine Octahedrite
Find: 1906!!!
Location: Sweden
Total Known Weight: 230+ kg !!!
Dimensions: 20.1 mm x 17.3 mm x 16.9 mm
Weight: 44.4 grams!!!
Muonionalusta
Status: Official
Basic informationName: Muonionalusta This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1906
Country: Sweden
Mass: 230 kg
Classification history:Meteoritical Bulletin, MB 20(1961): Iron-fine octahedrite
NHM Catalogue, 5th Edition(2000): IVA
MetBase, v. 7.1(2006): IVA
Recommended: Iron, IVA
This is 1 of 87 approved meteorites ) (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IVA.
Writeup Writeup from MB 20:
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MUONIONALUSTA I reads: 67°54'N; 20°18'E should read: 67°48'N; 23°6'8.
Source: List of meteorites and corrections made by K. Fredriksson (Stockholm) and received by E.L.Krinov in December 1960.
Writeup from MB 20:
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MUONIONALUSTA II, Kitkiojöki, Norrbotten; 67°46'N, 23°15'E.
FOUND, August 15, 1946.
IRON, octahedrite of fine structure.
1 specimen, weight about 15 kg.
The meteorite was discovered during the earthwork at a building site about 8 km to the east-southeast of the place where the Muonionalusta I iron meteorite was found in 1906.
Writeup from MB 28:
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DISCOVERY OF MUONIONALUSTA III IRON METEORITE, SWEDEN
Name: MUONIONALUSTA III.
The place of fall or discovery: About 3.5 km ENE of the village of Kitkiojoki, Sweden; φ = 67°47'N; λ = 23°21'E.
Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, June 7, 1963.
Class and type: IRON; octahedrite.
Number of individual specimens: 1
Total weight: 6.20 kg.
Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was found by Mr. Carl Henriksson in excavated material used for the construction of a causeway. The meteorite is now in the possession of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Stockholm, Sweden).
Source: Report of Dr. F. E. Wickman (Stockholm, Sweden) in a letter, IX.20.1963.
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