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| Basic information | Name: Xinyi This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1975 Country: China Mass:  69 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 9772 approved meteorites (plus 16 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 55:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE XINYI, CHINA, STONY METEORITE Name: XINYI Place of find: Kiangsu province, China. 34°22'N., 118°20'E. Date of find: Not reported. Class and type: Stone. Olivine bronzite chondrite. Total Fe 26.9 wt %. Number of individual specimens: Not reported, but probably only one. Total weight: 69 kg Circumstances of find: Found by a villager near his vegetable garden. After preliminary examination by a local group it was sent to Academia Sinica. Source: C. Tzewen, W. Chuanfen and G. Zhijuan, 1975. The Xinyi Chondrite from China. Sci. Geol. Sinica, p. 375, in Chinese with English abstract. See also Mineralogical Abstracts 76, 2704. Note: In the Times Atlas the place of find is spelled Hsin-i, Kiangsu province and the coordinates of Hsin-i are given as 34°21'N., 118°27'E. The coordinates given above presumably indicate the find site. The province name is variously transliterated, Jiangsu in the original abstract, Tiangsu in Mineralogical Abstracts. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 55, Meteoritics 13, 327-352 (1978)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 11 approved meteorites from Jiangsu, China This is 1 of 385 approved meteorites from China (plus 17 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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