On the description of meteorites from Augustinovka, Petropavlovsk and Tubila

Abstract

The descriptions of the aforementioned meteorites available in the scientific literature were produced using insufficient material from major collections of meteorites and require more detailed characterization. The previous distribution of the main masses of these meteorites, currently held in the museum of the Mining Institute, was highly imperfect and did not allow for a detailed and complete description of them; among these, some fragments — and in part even the enormous main piece of the Augustinovka meteorite, left to their own fate became covered with thick layer of rust.

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