* Astronomy

The movement of the stones from west to east was heard. The sound resembled that of thunder accompanied by a cracking like machine-gun fire. Local inhabitants heard the meteorite strike the ground. Immediately afterwards two stones, which fell at a distance of about 400 metres from each other, were discovered burrowed in the sand at a depth of approximately 25 cm. The specimen received by the Smithsonian Astrophysi­cal Observatory weighed 2.4 kg. Part of the specimen, weighing 1530 gr, has been transferred to the United States National Museum at Washington, USA.
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