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Armanty

Basic information

Name: Armanty
This is NOT an official name: Discredited meteorite.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1898
Country: China
Mass: 28 t

Classification
history:

NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	IIIE
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	IIIE
Recommended:			Iron, IIIE [explanation]

Comments:

Revised 27 Nov 2016: Discredited. Now a synonym for Armanty

Writeup

Writeup from MB 105:

Change of status of the name Armanty.

"Armanty" has been discredited as a distinct meteorite name. Armanty is now a synonym for Aletai, and is the recommended name for the largest mass of Aletai.

Buchwald

The following entries were found for Armanty in Buchwald (1975)
[Buchwald, Vagn F. (1975) Handbook of Iron Meteorites. University of California Press, 1418 pp.]

Entry for Armanty, volume 2, page 274

Catalogs:

References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 105, MAPS 52, 2411, September 2017. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12944/full

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Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos from the Encyclopedia of Meteorites:
Don Edwards
Jean-Michel Daillier
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
Alan Mazur
Corey Kuo
Woreczko Jan & Wadi

Geography:

China

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(47°N, 88°E)
Recommended::	(47°N, 88°E)

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Synonyms

Dzungaria (In NHM Cat)
Kumisch Choi Cha (In NHM Cat)
Kumys-Tyuya (In NHM Cat)
Mungen Dusch (In NHM Cat)
Ulasitai (Discredited in MB95)
Wushike (In NHM Cat)
Xinjiang (In NHM Cat)

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