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Sikhote-Alin meteorite

iron meteorite that fell in 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in eastern Siberia
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Sikhote-Alin meteorite

Summary

Sikhote-Alin meteorite is an iron meteorite[1]. It draws 131 Wikipedia views per month (iron_meteorite category, ranking #3 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's image is recorded as SikhoteAlinMeteorite.jpg[3].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's instance of is recorded as iron meteorite[4].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Primorsky Krai[5].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85122442[6].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's Commons category is recorded as Sikhote-Alin meteorite[7].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1947-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 46.16, 'lon': 134.65333333333}[9].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04698j[10].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID is recorded as 23593[11].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3667045[12].
  • Sikhote-Alin meteorite's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007543758205171[13].

Why It Matters

Sikhote-Alin meteorite draws 131 Wikipedia views per month (iron_meteorite category, ranking #3 of 12).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Library of Congress. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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