Meteorite Name: Brahin
Country: Belorussia
State/District: Gomel region
Coordinates: 52°30'N, 30°20'E
Date of find: 1810
Type: Stony/iron PAL Pallasite, main group, fragmental olivine shape.
Info from MetBull:Pallasite-Main gr; mass=823 kg; Found 1810; MetBull database entry DISCOVERY OF BRAGIN STONY-IRON METEORITE, USSR Name: BRAGIN (1968). The place of fall or discovery: 0.4 km nothern of the village of Ljady, Bragin district, Byelorussia, in the area of finds of previous specimens. Date of fall or discovery: FOUND, in the summer of 1968. Class and type: STONY-IRON, pallasite. Number of individual specimens: 1. Total weight: 12.391 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: The meteorite was found by the 3 form pupil Anja Fe dosenko on an arable field, at the edge of a small bog. The meteorite was turned over to the Institute of Geology (Minsk, USSR). Source: Report of Dr. B. Scheviakov (Minsk, USSR) in a letter, IX, 17, 1968.
