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| Basic information | Name: Lanxi This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1986 Country: China Mass:  1282 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11734 approved meteorites (plus 6 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 67:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Lanxi Hongxing, Lanxi County, Heilongjiang , China Fell June 10, 1986, 1000 hrs Stone. Ordinary chondrite (L6). A single mass weighing 1282 g was recovered by a farmer from a flax field about 20 minutes after the fall (S. Wang, Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China). Olivine analysis, Fa25, classification, A. E. Rubin (1988) pers. comm. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 67, Meteoritics 24, 57-60 (1989)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Heilongjiang, China This is 1 of 438 approved meteorites from China (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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