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Meteorite Seymchan Pallasite.

This huge 9.5"x 8.5", 10.75 pound section, has been polished on both sides and etched on one side to display the lovely and distinctive Widmanstatten pattern found on a Seymchan. It also shows a few olivine crystals that are transparent when held to a light, on bottom and edge which makes it a rare Pallasite. Pallasites are literally gemstones from space containing olivine crystals mixed in with the iron-nickel matrix. This is a museum quality and size section of a huge iron-nickel meteorite that has its original fusion crust on 3 sides.
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METEORITE SEYMCHAN
Première découverte en 1967 par F.A. Mednikov à 150 km de Seymchan dans le lit de la rivière Yasachnaya, dans la province Madagan, est de la Russie.
Largeur: environ 150 cm.
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A chunk of a meteorite weighing over 7 kilograms has been stolen from a museum in the remote Magadan Region in Russia's Far East on Saturday.
Anna Chak, a local Interior Ministry spokesperson explained the thieves broke into a history museum in the village of Seimchan at night and stole a part of the meteorite named after the residential place.
It is supposed that the offenders have been inspired by a recent TV program, which discussed the high value of meteorite pieces on Russia's black market.
The Seimchan Pallasite Iron Octahedrite IIE  meteorite, which weighs over 7 kilograms,  total mass 362.3 kg, was found in 1967 near the Seimchan gold mine in the Magadan Region.
The local police authorities are still investigating the case.
 
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Location: Magadan District, Russia. 62º 54' N, 152º 26' E

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