Sikhote-Alin Meteorite
Fall - February 12, 1947
Primorskiy kray, Russia
Iron IIAB
Sikhote-Alin Individuals
Looking just like you would think an iron meteorite should look this Sikhote Alin individuals are great. The size of thumbprinting on meteorites us directly related to the size of the individual mass so these resemble the iron meteorites seen in museum only in minature. Sikkote Alins are from Siberia and fell February 1947 in a tremendous meteoric event. They are coarsest octahedrites. Many small Sikhote Alin meteorites will show surfaces that have been ablated passing through the atmosphere. These surfaces will be melted and often have blow back and a ridge of metal that formed from the metal that melted and moved back onto the rest of the individual.