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Loulan Yizhi 033
Basic information Name: Loulan Yizhi 033
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2018
Country: China
Mass:help 23.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  L~4
Recommended:  L~4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 41 approved meteorites classified as L~4.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 3 Aug 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Loulan Yizhi 033        ~40°26’N, ~89°54’E

Xinjiang, China

Find: 2018

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~4)

History: (Ziyao Wang) The geologist Jianming Wang bought two stones from a merchant dealing in stones in Hami. Both stones were discovered close to each other in 2018. Jianming Wang obtained them in Hami/Xinjiang in 2019 and donated them to R. Bartoschewitz.

Physical characteristics: Two brown stones of 23.73 g (12.02 and 11.71 g) with evaporation minerals on surface cracks

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Yellow-brown heavy oxidized matrix with well defined gray chonrules (0.3-1.2 mm). Metal and sulfide are completely oxidized.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.57

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~4, W5)

Specimens: 4.8 g on deposit at Kiel, Bart. holds the main mass

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Xinjiang
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Date:2018
Latitude:~40°26'N
Longitude:~89°54'E
Mass (g):23.73
Pieces:2
Class:L~4
Weathering grade:W5
Magnetic suscept.:4.57
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):4.8
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:R. Bartoschewitz
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name WZD#09. These stones might be paired with Loulan Yizhi "WZ134".; 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::   (40° 26'N, 89° 54'E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 348 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 6 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 518 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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