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[Regnum] The Chulyshman meteorite, discovered in 2005 in the Ulagansky District of the Altai Republic, has been officially recognized as the first in the region's history and the 160th in Russia. This was reported on November 6 by the press service of the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On September 22, the International Meteorite Committee added the object to its database and named it Chulyshman, after the river on whose bank the meteorite was found by a local resident.
Chulyshman is an ordinary chondrite of the H5 group, which also includes the Novosibirsk meteorite. The Chelyabinsk and Okulovka meteorites are also ordinary chondrites, the most common on Earth.
"True, the metal and sulfide content in Chulyshman is higher, and the meteorite itself is heavily oxidized, so the time since its fall can be estimated at no less than several hundred years, but most likely significantly longer," the institute noted.
A driver who picked up a stone on the Katu-Yaryk Pass placed it under his car's wheel and then, curious, took it home. Although relatively small, the boulder weighed about 16 kg, had an unusual color, and was magnetic. The man tried to find experts to appraise the stone, but they turned out to be scammers and offered to buy it for next to nothing. He then took the stone to his garage, where it remained for 20 years.
In 2025, the meteorite came into the hands of Viktor Likhachev, a stonecutter and the head of the "Samotsvety" creative association in the village of Verkh-Uimon. From there, it was passed on to scientists. They studied the meteorite fragments, its structure, and composition.
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