* Astronomy

The lodranite group is named after Lodhran, Pakistan, where the type specimen fell on 1 October 1868 at 14:00. Eye witnesses of the fall reported a loud bang accompanied by a rising dust cloud to the east of the city, which led to the discovery and retrieval of the meteorite. The "meteorite from Lodran" was first described by Gustav Tschermak in 1870. He described the meteorite being "apart from the nickel-iron it is an olivine-bronzite aggregate of such outstanding sort, that has never been found in a meteorite before only similar to the terrestrial olivine rock". George Thurland Prior was the first to classify the lodran meteorite as the only member of the lodranite group. He also saw close similarities to the ureilites
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