Veliky Ustyug (russian: Великий Устюг) is a pseudometeorite that fell on July 3, 1290 (
Julian calendar
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: June 24) in
Kotovo village, near the town of
Veliky Ustyug
Veliky Ustyug (russian: Вели́кий У́стюг) is a town in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located in the northeast of the oblast at the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 31,665.
Veliky U ...
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Vologda Oblast
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Russia
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. The fall was witnessed by local priests. The event was later described in the ''Life of
Procopius the Righteous'' (russian: Житие Прокопия Праведного; 16th century).
The pseudometeorite itself has been lost. Veliky Ustyug is included in the
Meteoritical Bulletin Database
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as a doubtful meteorite.
Scientists of the Meteoritics Laboratory of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry presume that the fall of the Veliky Ustyug meteorite is connected to the
Tunguska explosion
The Tunguska event (occasionally also called the Tunguska incident) was an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of June 30, ...
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See also
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Glossary of meteoritics
This is a glossary of terms used in meteoritics, the science of meteorites.
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* 2 Pallas – an asteroid from the asteroid belt and one of the likely parent bodies of the CR meteorites.
* 4 Vesta – second-largest asteroid in the asteroid b ...
References
1290 in Europe
Meteorite falls
Meteorites found in Russia
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