Case file · Cosmic event
Sikhote-Alin meteorite fall
On 12 February 1947 a fireball brighter than the Sun crossed Primorye and an iron meteorite broke up over the Sikhote-Alin mountains, leaving more than a hundred craters.
1947 CE · 46.16, 134.65 · status: official
The account
Witnesses up to 300 km away saw the bolide and a smoke trail that hung for hours. The Soviet Academy of Sciences sent expeditions that recovered about 23 tonnes of iron fragments. The artist P. I. Medvedev, who saw the fall, painted it, and the painting appeared on a 1957 Soviet stamp.