DISCOVERY OF SEYMCHAN IRON METEORITE, USSR
Name: SEYMCHAN
The place of fall or discovery:
The meteorite has been found in a brook-bed flowing into the river of
Hekandue, a left tributary of the river of Jasachnaja of the Magadan
district, USSR.
Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, June 1967.
Class and type: IRON.
Number of individual specimens: 2.
Total weight: About 351 kg (about 300 kg and 51 kg).
Circumstances of the fall or discovery:
The larger specimen has been found by the geologist F. A. Mednikov
during a geological survey. The meteorite hardly seen was lying among
the stones of the brook-ebd. The smaller specimen was found at a
distance of 20 m from the first one by I. H. Markov with a mine detector
in october 1967. The main mass was turned to the Academy of Sciences of
the USSR.
Source: Report
of geologist F. A. Mednikov (Magadan, USSR) in a letter, VIII 15, 1967
and of V. 1. Zvetkov (Moscow, USSR) in a letter X 17, 1967.
