Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Ganq 002

header

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 7 May 2023
Search for:	Search type:	Search limits:	Display:	Publication:
Names Text Places Classes Years	Contains Starts with Exact Sounds like	NonAntarctic Falls Non-NWAs Has strewnfield		What's new in the last:
Include past classifications in search		Has photo	Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:

Ganq 002

Basic information

Name: Ganq 002
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2014
Country: China
Mass: 5.34 kg

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 2 Dec 2018

Writeup

help

Writeup from MB 107:

Ganq 002 37°34’54.59"N, 92°14’45.81"E

Qinghai, China

Find: 10 Mar 2014

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~6)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Discovered by Zhang Qun (Haixi/Qinghai) and Liu Binghan (Haixi/Qinghai) in the Gobi desert about 150 km SE of Huangtouzhen, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, on March 10, 2014.

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang and R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Shield shaped oriented individual of 5340 g. Black, eroded fusion crust presents well-developed flow lines.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) weak brown-stained, recrystallized matrix with poorly defined chondrules and irregular metal and sulfide inclusions up to 1 mm

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 4.95

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~6, W1)

Specimens: 20.3 g on deposit at Kiel, Liu Binghan (Haixi/Qinghai) and Zhang Qun (Haixi/Qinghai) hold the main mass, 150 g with Wang Ziyao, and 129.6 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
  Line 0:

State/Prov/County:	Qinghai
Origin or pseudonym:	desert
Date:	10 Mar 2014
Latitude:	37°34'54.59"N
Longitude:	92°14'45.81"E
Mass (g):	5340
Pieces:	1
Class:	L~6
Weathering grade:	W1
Magnetic suscept.:	4.95
Classifier:	R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):	20.3
Type spec location:	Kiel
Main mass:	Liu Binghan and Zhang Qun
Finder:	Zhang Qun
Comments:	working name WZ02; 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

Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:

Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
Ziyao Wang

Geography:

China

China

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(37° 34' 55"N, 92° 14' 46"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 28 approved meteorites from Qinghai, China
This is 1 of 467 approved meteorites from China (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

Proximity search:

Direct link to this page