Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Jinchang 001

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 24 Apr 2024
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:

Jinchang 001

Basic information

Name: Jinchang 001
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: China
Mass: 813 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 107	(2018)	H~6
Recommended:			H~6 [explanation]

This is 1 of 69 approved meteorites classified as H~6. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 16 Dec 2018

Writeup

Writeup from MB 107:

Jinchang 001 38°24’45.56"N, 102° 2’48.71"E

Gansu, China

Find: 22 Aug 2015

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~6)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Discovered by Wang Ziyao in a Gobi desert area of Yongchang county, 15 km SW of Jinchang city, Gansu province, on Aug. 22, 2015.

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang and R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Black-brown stone of 813 g with rusty fusion crust with adhering sand grains.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Brown-stained, recrystallized matrix with poorly defined chondrules and irregular metal and sulfide specks up to 0.6 mm

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 5.27

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~6, W2)

Specimens: 20.5g on deposit at Kiel, Wang Ziyao holds the main mass, and 114.8 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
  Line 0:

State/Prov/County:	Gansu
Origin or pseudonym:	desert
Date:	22 Aug 2015
Latitude:	38°24'45.56"N
Longitude:	102° 2'48.71"E
Mass (g):	813
Pieces:	1
Class:	H~6
Weathering grade:	W2
Magnetic suscept.:	5.27
Classifier:	R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):	24.5
Type spec location:	Kiel
Main mass:	Wang Ziyao
Finder:	Wang Ziyao
Comments:	working name WZ05; 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:

Geography:

China

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(38° 24' 46"N, 102° 2' 49"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 14 approved meteorites from Gansu, China
This is 1 of 518 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

Proximity search:

Also see:

This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.

Revision
history:

This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page