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In the Bahrampur: A luminous white red-hot ball was seen descending quickly with (ithick dark black smoke)> moving westwards. Three nearly simultaneous roaring thunderous sounds were heard in the north-east direction. Suddenly with a hissing sound a fragment fell in cultivated land, making a pit 13.5 cm deep and 9 cm in surface diameter. It was recovered within one minute of its fall and was said to be hot enough to burn the fingers. The specimen weighing 1.092 kg is irregular and covered by an extremely thin fusion crust preserved especially on the irregular face with regmaglypts.
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The Muzaffarpur (Iron) meteorite fell in Bihar, India, on the 11th April, 1964.
A total mass of 1245 g was recovered.

26° 8'N, 85° 32'E



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