Muonionalusta
Sign in to saveThe Muonionalusta meteorite (, ) is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE.
Key facts
- Meteorite.Name
- Muonionalusta meteorite
- Meteorite.Image
- Muonionalusta meteorite.png
- Meteorite.Image_caption
- The Muonionalusta meteorite, on loan to the Prague National Museum in 2010. It is the largest meteorite ever exhibited in the Czech Republic.
- Meteorite.Type
- IVA (Of)
- Meteorite.Class
- Octahedrite
- Meteorite.Group
- Iron
- Meteorite.Structural_classification
- Fine Octahedrite
- Meteorite.Composition
- Ni, Ga, Ge
- Meteorite.Country
- Sweden
- Meteorite.Region
- Norrbotten
- Meteorite.Observed_fall
- No
- Meteorite.Found_date
- 1906
- Meteorite.Strewn_field
- Yes
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The Muonionalusta meteorite (, ) is a meteorite classified as fine octahedrite, type IVA (Of) which impacted in northern Scandinavia, west of the border between Sweden and Finland, about one million years BCE.
The first fragment of the Muonionalusta meteorite was found in 1906 near the village of Kitkiöjärvi. Around forty pieces are known today, some being quite large. Other fragments have been found in a area in the Pajala district of Norrbotten County, approximately north of the Arctic Circle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muonionalusta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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