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We were mowing grass in a field. It was a hot summer day. At four in the afternoon we stopped our horses for a rest; suddenly a far sound was heard, like the sound of a flying airplane... Nothing could be seen, and the sound grew louder with every second and then turned into an awful noise and racket. At a height of 20 m we noticed a falling black ball. 
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The Nikolaevka (H4 chondrite) meteorite fell in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, on the 11th July, 1935.
A total mass of 4 kg was recovered.

52° 27'N, 78° 38'E



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