256.3 gram 52 mm sphere. L5
TKW 1.23 tons. Fall not observed, according to the MetBul Database, but The Meteoritical Bulletin No. 59 states:
Place of fall: Near Tsarev village, Volgograd district, USSR.
Date of fall: December 6, 1922, 0700 hrs (?), found 1968, recognized 1979.
Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L5).
Total weight: 1131.7 kg
Circumstances of find: Found in fields, the first few specimens were found by B.G. Nikiforov. The largest mass weighs 284 kg, the smallest 761 g. The greatest distance between the find sites was 6.0 km.
  
Scott writes:
For the holidays, Tsarev (a December fall) and poinsettia!
Tsarev is dark, almost black, with metallic flecks. It makes for a very pretty, albeit hard to photograph, sphere.
Acquired from Serge Afanasyev. |