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Hami 016
Basic information Name: Hami 016
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: China
Mass:help 47.3 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  H~5
Recommended:  H~5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 192 approved meteorites classified as H~5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 11 Feb 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Hami 016        ~42°21’N, ~93°15’E

Xinjiang, China

Find: 2015

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~5)

History: Discovered by Yongsheng Wang in the Hami dense collection area in 2015

Physical characteristics: fractured brown stone without fusion crust of 47.3 g

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) brown, recrystallized matrix, with defined chondrules (0.3-1 mm, av. ~0.6 mm), and nearly completely oxidized metal and sulfide. Vugs and cracks are mostly filled with iron-hydroxides.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.78

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~5, W5)

Specimens: 12.1 g on deposit at Kiel, Bart holds the main mass.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
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State/Prov/County:Xinjiang
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Date:2015
Latitude:~42°21'N
Longitude:~93°15'E
Mass (g):47.3
Pieces:1
Class:H~5
Weathering grade:W5
Magnetic suscept.:4.78
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):12.1
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Bart
Finder:Yongsheng Wang
Comments:working name Hami yyy; 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. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150
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Geography:

China
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (42° 21'N, 93° 15'E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 345 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 6 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 514 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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