Lixna meteorite, Augšdaugava Municipality, Latgale Region, Latviai

Regional Level Types
Lixna meteorite	Meteorite Fall Location
Augšdaugava Municipality	Municipality
Latgale Region	Region
Latvia	Country

Ordinary Chondrite, veined (H4)
Fall, 12 July 1820; 18.1 kg

After a northwardly moving fireball appeared, accompanied by detonations, a meteoritic stone fell at the village of Lasdany near Lixna. Other stones fell in the water and some of the recovered meteorite itself appears to have been lost into oblivion. However, portions of the Lixna meteorite still survive as one of the earliest witnessed falls of what are now classified as 'ordinary chondrites.'

Like most ordinary H (high bulk iron) chondrites the Lixna chondrite contains chondrules rich in olivine (Fa20), orthopyroxene, and lesser amounts of plagioclase. The matrix is dominated by these phases, accessory kamacite, and troilite, as well as a number of minor phases. Prominent veins are presumably due to preterrestrial impacts that have occurred on the long journey from ejection from an original parent body to the meteoroid's eventual encounter with the earth. Many of the minerals listed here were adequately described for identification in reports written before the minerals received their current definitions. In this case, confirmation of several opaque phases by Ramdohr (1973) underscores the impression that several of the nineteenth-century mineralogists were careful observers indeed.

Lixna was the first of 4 ordinary chondrites falls recorded in Latvia during the 19th Century. It was also only the 4th of the 49 H4 chondrite falls recorded through 2014. The only earlier recorded H4 falls were the Sena (1773), Weston (1807), and Seres (1818) meteorites. By 2000, the largest remaining mass was 2.76 kg held by Ukraine's Academy of Science. The mass listed at the Meteoritical Society's Meteoritical Bulletin (5.21 kg) may represent the known mass after World War II following Krinov, but it does not appear to represent the original recovered mass.

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Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C4%ABksna_Parish
Wikidata ID:	Q2340111

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