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Name: KAIDUN
Place of fall: Near Kaidun [Khuraybah], South Yemen.
15°0'N., 48°18'E.
Date of fall: December 3, 1980, 0445 hrs. U.T.
Class and type: Stone. Carbonaceous chondrite.
Number of individual specimens: 1
Total weight: 841.64 g
Circumstances of fall: A fireball was observed travelling from NW to SE. and a single stone was recovered from a small impact pit. The fireball was seen from a position 150 km NNW. of the fall-site. The date of fall reported in SEAN Bulletin, 1981, 6, no. 4 (January 7, 1981) is in error.
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Kaidun is a meteorite that fell on 3 December 1980 on a Soviet military base near what is now Al-Khuraybah in Yemen. A fireball was observed travelling from the northwest to the southeast, and a single stone weighing about 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) was recovered from a small impact pit. 
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The Kaidun (CR2) meteorite fell in Hadhramaut, Yemen, on the 3rd December, 1980.
A total mass of 2 kg was recovered.

15° 0'N, 48° 18'E



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