Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell spectacularly at 10:38 AM, February 12, 1947, in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, northeast of Vladivostok, Russia.

Witnesses to the fall saw a fireball brighter than the sun, that appeared from the North and then exploded violently at the very low altitude of ~3.5 miles.  Fragments of the meteorite were scattered over an area of approximately half a square mile, and created a field of small pits and craters up to 85 feet long and 20 feet deep.