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Place of fall: Village of Se Djabang, District of Kalisangka, Island of Kangean, Indonesia. 6°51'S, 115° 15'E (Kalisangka). Date of fall: November 27, 1908, about 11 a.m.
Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite.
Number of individual specimens: 1
Total weight: 1.6 kg

Circumstances of fall: A loud noise accompanied the fall of an individual meteorite specimen into a flooded rice field. It was recovered by local residents and broken into a number of pieces. The 1.6 kg of material preserved in the Mineralogical-geological Museum of the Technical Institute, Delft, Netherlands, probably represents more than half the original mass.

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The Kangean (H5) meteorite fell in Jawa Timur, Indonesia, on the 27th November, 1908.
A total mass of 1630 g was recovered.

7° 0'S, 115° 30'E



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