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Yuanyang

Basic information

Name: Yuanyang
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2010
Country: China
Mass: 140 kg

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 103	(2014)	Iron, IAB-MG
Recommended:			Iron, IAB-MG [explanation]

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Comments:

Approved 17 Nov 2014

Writeup

Writeup from MB 103:

Yuanyang 23°13’N, 102°50’E

Yunnan, China

Found: 2010

Classification: Iron meteorite (IAB-MG)

History: An iron meteorite was found by a local farmer in a mountain area of Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province.

Petrography: Mainly consists of kamacite. Taenite and schreibersite are also present.

Geochemistry: UCLA INAA data: Co 4.61 mg/g, Ni 70.2 mg/g, Ga 84.3 μg/g, As 13.4 μg/g,W 0.91 μg/g, Ir 1.00 μg/g, Pt 5.1 μg/g, Au 1.565 μg/g

Classification: IAB main group iron meteorite with an Og structure.

Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
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State/Prov/County:	Yunnan
Origin or pseudonym:	Mountain
Date:	2010
Latitude:	23°13'N
Longitude:	102°50'E
Mass (g):	140000
Pieces:	1
Class:	Iron, IAB-MG
Classifier:	J.T. Wasson, UCLA
Type spec mass (g):	50
Type spec location:	PMO
Main mass:	Ke Zuokai
Comments:	Submitted by W. Hsu

Institutions
and collections

UCLA: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States (institutional address; updated 17 Oct 2011)
PMO: Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China (institutional address; updated 16 Dec 2011)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full

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Geography:

China

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(23° 13'N, 102° 50'E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites from Yunnan, China
This is 1 of 462 approved meteorites from China (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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