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The Omolon Meteorite has always been one of the most elusive and rare pallasites. It was witnessed to fall in 1981 and then immediately acquired by a museum. It wasn't until recently that a team of Russian meteorite hunters braved the wilderness for several months until they ultimately found a few tiny fragments. I looked through the specimens before anyone else and took the finest tiny specimens that have bits of beautiful olivine still intact.

Here’s information (from the Meteorite Bulletin) about this particular meteorite.

Omolon
Basic information Name: Omolon
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 1981
Country: Russia
Mass: 250 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  
(1992)  Pallasite-Main gr
NHM Catalogue:  
(2000)  Pallasite
MetBase:  
(2006)  Pallasite
Recommended:  

Pallasite, PMG  

This is 1 of 58 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Pallasite, PMG.  
Comments: Revised 26 May 2009: Classification from Wasson (2003)
Writeup
           
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Omolon

Magadan, Russia

Fell May 16, 1981, 5:10

Stony iron. Pallasite (Main group)

A mass of 250 kg was found in 1983 by reindeer-breeder I. Tynavie, who had observed the fall on May 16, 1981. There is a report from a meteorological station of a bright fireball on this date at 5:10 in the same region. The meteorite was recovered in June 1990. Classification, G. F. Pavlov, analysis, olivine Fa12.2, Ni in metal 10.6%, G. A. Merkulov and G. M. Kolesov, North-East Complex Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Far-East Division, Ul. Portovaya 16, Magadan 685000, Russia (where also the main mass is located), and Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, respectively. Information, M. I. Petaev, Committee on Meteorites, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ul. M. Ulyanovoi 3, Moscow 117313, Russia.