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Loulan Yizhi 038
Basic information Name: Loulan Yizhi 038
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: China
Mass:help 313 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 108  (2020)  LL~5
Recommended:  LL~5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 21 approved meteorites classified as LL~5.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 21 Sep 2019
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 108:

Loulan Yizhi 038        ~40°30’N, ~89°54’E

Xinjiang, China

Find: 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~5)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Ziyao Wang from Dongfang Deng in Shanshan/Xinjiang in 2019. This meteorite was discovered in the Loulanyizhi dense collection area in 2019.

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) flat stone of 313 g with some black fusion crust.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) gray recrystallized matrix with chondrules (0.4 - 1.5, av. 0.9 mm), sulfide and metal.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 3.73

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~5, W2)

Specimens: 22.5 g on deposit at Kiel, Ziyao Wang holds the main mass, and 49 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Xinjiang
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Date:2019
Latitude:~40°30'N
Longitude:~89°54'E
Mass (g):313
Pieces:1
Class:LL~5
Weathering grade:W2
Magnetic suscept.:3.73
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):22.5
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Ziyao Wang
Finder:anonymous
Comments:working name WZ145; 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° 30'N, 89° 54'E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 344 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 5 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 513 approved meteorites from China (plus 12 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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