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An Iranian-Russian meteorite search expedition in the Dasht-e Loot (Loot Desert), starting on 1 January 2017 ended with the arrival of the Russian team members (Mikhail Larionov, Nikolay Kruglikov, Aleksandr Pastukhovich and Dmitry Zamyatin) in Yekaterinburg on 11 January. MINERALOGY AND PETROGRAPHY OF H5 CHONDRITES FROM THE LUT DESERT, IRAN<\/strong> Video:\u042f\u043c\u0430\u043b \u0420\u0435\u0433\u0438\u043e\u043d
\nAccording to a press release<\/a> of UrFU University on 12 January about 12 kilograms of suspected meteorites have been found. The suspected meteorites are being analysed at the Iranian Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman (\u062f\u0627\u0646\u0634\u06af\u0627\u0647 \u0634\u0647\u06cc\u062f \u0628\u0627\u0647\u0646\u0631 \u06a9\u0631\u0645\u0627\u0646) and Ural Federal University (UrFU) in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The largest specimen, Gandom Beryan 008 (H5), weighing 11 kg, was found at location 31\u00b053\u201915.24″N, 57\u00b0 2\u201928.08″E<\/a> in the morning of January 5 by Aleksandr Pastukhovich. UrFU’s share of the found specimens weighs about six kilograms. The biggest complete specimen weighs 2,066 kilograms and was found on 4 January by A. Pastukhovich. A 217.92-g-specimen was found on 4 January as well. Another 59.32-g-specimen was found on 9 January. The analysis started on 12 January. UrFU university contributed about 666,000 rubles (US$ 11,200) to the expedition. Researchers at UrFU hope that there will be further expeditions in the Iranian desert in the future. Three of the finds were officially approved as Gandom Beryan 009<\/a> (217.92 g, H5, S2, W3-4), Gandom Beryan 008<\/a> (11,000 g, H5, S2, W3-4) and Kerman 203<\/a> (59,32 g, H5, S2, W3-4) on December 11 and 18, 2017.<\/p>\n
\nA.Yu. Pastukhovich, V. V. Sharygin, G.A.Yakovlev, R.N. Kolunin, V.I. Grokhovsky
\n81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2018 [#6136]\nabstract<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
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