One single mass of was found from the town of
Pallasovka by N. F. Kharitonov (a local resident) on a
dike on the edge of an artificial
water reservoir. The
pond and dike were built in 1978 using explosives so the mass has probably been lifted to the surface from a depth of about 2 m. In fall 2004, Kharitonov gave a small sample to A. Ye. Milanovsky who transferred it to the Vernadsky Institute (
Moscow) and then proved its meteoritic origin. ==Pallasovka and Peter Pallas==