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| Basic information | Name: Tianzhang This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1986 Country: China Mass:  2.23 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 11077 approved meteorites (plus 22 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, H 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. Tianzhang Gaomiao, Tianzhang County, Anhui, China Fell January 28, 1986, 1700 hrs Stone. Ordinary chondrite (H5). A single mass weighing 2232 grams was recovered from a field by a farmer a few minutes after the fall (S. Wang, Purple Mountain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China); olivine analysis, Fa18.4, classification, A. 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 4 approved meteorites from Anhui, China This is 1 of 462 approved meteorites from China (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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Tianchang (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||