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FIFTEEN SIKHOTE-ALIN "SCHRAPNEL" METEORITES Coarse Octahedrite, (II B) Sikhote-Alin, Russia The Sikhote-Alin meteorite fell during daylight hours at 10.38am local time on February 12, 1947, in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, about 280 miles northeast of Vladivostok in Russia. Witnesses reported a fireball that was brighter than the Sun. It came from...