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On July 11, 1949 a meteorite shower bombarded an area of 74.9 square miles of the Chelyabinsk region. All that was subsequently found were 20 fragments, totalling 440 pounds in all. The Kunashak Meteorite was only 720 million years old - a relative youngster
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Part of the roof of the dryer, punched through by one of the Kunashak stony meteorites
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This beautiful 20.5 gram partial slice is an L6 ordinary chondrite, regolith breccia, which fell on June 11, 1949. The fall took place in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia with 20 stones totaling ~200 kgs. Most of this material is held by the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Kunashak is also a hammer as one stone reportedly struck a house.
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The Kunashak (L6) meteorite fell in Chelyabinskaya oblast', Russia, on the 11th June, 1949.
A total mass of 200 kg was recovered.

55° 47'N, 61° 22'E



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