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Xinjiang 009
Basic information Name: Xinjiang 009
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2013
Country: China
Mass:help 60.3 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  L~6
Recommended:  L~6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 191 approved meteorites classified as L~6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 9 Nov 2018
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Writeup from MB 107:

Xinjiang 009

Xinjiang, China

Purchased: 2013

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~6)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Wang Ziyao from an ornamental stone dealer in Hami/Xinjiang in 2013. He reportet that he got this stone from another ornamental stone dealer, and that it was found in the desert of Xinjiang.

Physical characteristics: (Wang Ziyao) Black-brown stone of 60.3 g with adhering sand grains.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) recrystallized matrix with poor defined chondrules (1.0-1.6 mm, av. 1.0 mm)

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.32

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~6, W4)

Specimens: 12.3 g on deposit at Kiel, Wang Ziyao holds the main mass, and 11 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Xinjiang
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Place of purchase:Hami, Xinjiang
Date:P 2013
Mass (g):60.3
Pieces:1
Class:L~6
Weathering grade:W4
Magnetic suscept.:4.32
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):12.3
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Wang Ziyao
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name WZ20; submitted by R. Bartoschewitz
Institutions
   and collections		 Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013)
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Geography:

China
Coordinates:Unknown.

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 346 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 6 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 516 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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