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Hongshagang 001

Basic information

Name: Hongshagang 001
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: China
Mass: 27 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 108	(2020)	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 11 Feb 2019

Writeup

Writeup from MB 108:

Hongshagang 001 39° 1’19.10"N, 102°32’43.23"E

Gansu, China

Find: Dec 2018

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~6)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Discovered by Yingbin Zhu and Zhifeng Wang in the desert in Hongshagang Village, Jinchang City (Gansu Province) in Dec. 2018

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) Gray brown stone of 27 g

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) gray, brown-stained, recrystallized matrix, with gray, defined chondrules (0.4-1.5 mm, av. ~0.8 mm), irregular metal and sulfide. Vugs and cracks are partly filled with iron-hydroxides.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 4.45

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~6, W3)

Specimens: 7.7 g on deposit at Kiel, Ziyao Wang holds the main mass, and 5 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
  Line 0:

State/Prov/County:	Gansu
Origin or pseudonym:	desert
Date:	Dec 2018
Latitude:	39° 1'19.10"N
Longitude:	102°32'43.23"E
Mass (g):	27
Pieces:	1
Class:	L~6
Weathering grade:	W3
Magnetic suscept.:	4.45
Classifier:	R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):	7.7
Type spec location:	Kiel
Main mass:	Ziyao Wang
Finder:	Yingbin Zhu and Zhifeng Wang
Comments:	working name WZ89; 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)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150

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Geography:

China

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(39° 1' 19"N, 102° 32' 43"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 13 approved meteorites from Gansu, China
This is 1 of 462 approved meteorites from China (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

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