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Name: VETLUGA (Betyra)
Place of fall: 7 km distant from the town Vetluga, Gorky district, USSR.
57°48'N., 45°48'E.
Date of fall: February 27, 1949, day time.
Class and type: Stone. Achondrite.
Number of individual specimens: 1
Total weight: 750 g
Circumstances of fall: A meteorite fell in forest 80 m from south shore of Bobrovo lake. No atmospheric flight was observed. The meteorite is kept in the Vetluga Museum. 
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The Vetluga (Eucrite) meteorite fell in Nizhegorodskaya oblast', Russia, on the 27th February, 1949.
A total mass of 750 g was recovered.

57° 48'N, 45° 48'E



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