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Name: AROOS.
The place of fall or discovery: village of Aroos, Yardymlinsk District, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR.
Date of fall or discovery: FALL, November 24, 1959, 7 hrs. 05 min. Moscow time (III belt).
Class and type: IRON.
The number of individual specimens: 5.
Total weight: No. 1 (in order of discovery) 11.3 kg, No. 2 = 5.7 kg, No. 3 = 5.93 kg, No. 4 = 0.36 kg and No. 5 = 127.0 kg; total weight: 150.29 kg.
The circumstances of the fall or discovery: The fall of the meteorite shower was accompanied by a bright, blinding flare brighter than solar illumination and a noise resembling rolling thunder. Through the clouds, eyewitnesses saw the bright bolide flying from southwest to northeast. The fall of the individual samples was accompanied by a whistling an drone similar to that made by a jet aircraft or missile.
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The Yardymly meteorite (also known as Aroos meteorite, Azerbaijani: Yardml meteoriti) is an iron meteorite that fell in Yardymli Rayon, Azerbaijan on November 24, 1959. The remains were discovered in the nearby village of Aroos. With five individual specimens, the total weight of the meteorite is estimated at 150.29 kilograms.
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The Yardymly (Iron) meteorite fell in Baku, Azerbaijan, on the 24th November, 1959.
A total mass of 150.2 kg was recovered.

38° 56'N, 48° 15'E



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