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- ↑ "redirect to /world/PK/04/Adhi_Kot.html". www.fallingrain.com. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ The Catalogue of Meteorites Natural History Museum
- ↑ Smithsonian/NASA ADS Astronomy Abstract Service
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