* Astronomy

In early April this year, Moscow resident Oleg Nikolayevich Gus'kov brought a piece of iron to the laboratory. According to Gus'kov, he was returning home from collecting mushrooms near the village of Dronino, Kasimovsky Raion, Ryazan Oblast. As he walked along a path leading along the edge of a forest, he noticed a rusty piece of metal sticking out of the white clay soil. Oleg Nikolayevich tried unsuccessfully to dig it out with his knife. He decided that perhaps the piece of metal was a meteorite, went home for a shovel and wheelbarrow, dug the piece up and brought it home. This happened during the hot month of July, 2000.
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 A 40 kg iron was found by Oleg Gus'kov, Moscow resident, as he was returning home from collecting mushrooms near the village of Dronino in the Ryazan district. In early 2003, it was taken to Vernad, and identified as meteoritic.
In summer 2003, scientific expeditions and meteorite hunters collected more than 600 fragments (the largest is 250 kg) totalling about 3000 kg and occurring at a depth of 0.2-2 m across an area of 0.5x1.5 km. The distribution of the fragments suggests that the meteorite formed a now-buried crater about 30 m in diameter.
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Location 54° 44' 48"N, 41° 25' 18"E