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Okauo meteorite, Japan

Posted by Uwe Kolitsch  
Okauo meteorite, Japan
October 19, 2011 05:34PM
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Does anyone (meteorite specialist) have information on this meteorite? Does it have another name nowadays?
It's not in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database.


Chikashige, M.; Hiki, T. (1912): A Recent Fall of Meteoric Iron in Japan. Zeitschrift für Anorganische Chemie 77, 197-199.

"Reports on a meteor that fell April, 1904 in Okauo near Sasayama. (1) The Okauo meteor is one of the few meteors, the fall of which was directly observed. (...)"


EDIT: Found it myself - it's the Okano meteorite (so there is either a misprint in the original paper or in the literature database from which I obtained the ref.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/19/2011 05:37PM by Uwe Kolitsch.
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