Akbarpur (meteorite)

{{Short description|Meteorite found in India}}

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|Name= Akbarpur

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|Type= Chondrite

|Class= Ordinary chondrite

|Group=H4

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|Country= India

|Region= Uttar Pradesh

|Lat_Long= {{coord|29|43|N|77|57|E|display=inline,title}}{{metbull|427|Akbarpur}}

|Observed_fall= Yes

|Fall_date=April 18, 1838

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|TKW= 1800 g

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Akbarpur is an H chondrite meteorite that fell to earth on April 18, 1838, in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is notable for being the first Indian meteorite for which an official report accompanied by a legal deposition was filed.{{Cite journal |last=Nair |first=Savithri Preetha |year=2006 |title=Science and the politics of colonial collecting: the case of Indian meteorites, 1856–70 |journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=97–119 |doi=10.1017/S0007087405007624 |issn=1474-001X}} It is a polymict{{Cite journal |last=Wahl |first=Walter |date=1952-01-01 |title=The brecciated stony meteorites and meteorites containing foreign fragments |journal=Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=91–117 |doi=10.1016/0016-7037(52)90002-1 |bibcode=1952GeCoA...2...91W |issn=0016-7037}} that belongs to the petrologic type 4, thus was assigned to the group H4. Its surface features regmaglypts.{{Cite journal |year=1969 |title=Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyMeAQAAMAAJ |journal=Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India |language=en |publisher=The Governor-General of India |volume=99 |pages=22}}