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Sheyang
Basic information Name: Sheyang
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: Yes
Year fell: 1976
Country: China
Mass:help 605 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 65  (1987)  L6
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  L6
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12727 approved meteorites (plus 11 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)
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Writeup from MB 65:
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FALL OF THE SHEYANG, CHINA, STONY METEORITE

Name: SHEYANG

Place of fall: Sheyang County, Jiangsu province, China. 33°39'N., 120°4'E.

Date of fall: July 11, 1976,1330 hrs.

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa24.4.

Number of individual

specimens: 1

Total weight: 605 g

Circumstances of fall: Found in a rice paddy about 1981. The above fall date has been inferred from light and sound observations made in 1976.

Source: S. Wang, Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China; D. Wang, A.E. Rubin and J.T. Wasson, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA. The material is now held by the Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China.

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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 65, Meteoritics 22, 157-163 (1987)
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Geography:

China
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (33° 39'N, 120° 4'E)
     Recommended::   (33° 39'N, 120° 4'E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 11 approved meteorites from Jiangsu, China
     This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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