* Astronomy

Fall 2001, July 9, 4.00 hrs (or July 8, 23.00 UT)
Carbonaceous chondrite (CV3)

One stone, weighing 5.3 kg, fell in a field, 15 km away from the Bukhara city. A shepherd saw the fall and recovered the stone. Later his grandson learned about meteorites in school and remembered about the stone. He thought that it might be a meteorite, and reported about the stone to the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences. Shuhrat A. Ehgamberdiev of the Institute sent a sample of the meteorite to the Vernadsky Institute in 2004. Mineralogy and classification (M.A. Ivanova Vernad., F. Brandstaetter NHMW). Fusion crust is well developed, dark gray. The meteorite consists of POP, PO, BO and PP chondrules, chondrule fragments, CAIs, and matrix. Matrix/chondrule ratio is 0.6; chondrule sizes vary from 0.2 to 2 mm, 0.6 mm in average.
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