Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Liuyuan 001

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 19 Mar 2023
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:

Liuyuan 001

Basic information

Name: Liuyuan 001
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: China
Mass: 51 g

Classification
history:

Recommended:

L~5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 70 approved meteorites classified as L~5. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 23 May 2020

Writeup

Writeup from MB 109:

Liuyuan 001 41°59’28.11"N, 95° 6’59.35"E

Xinjiang, China

Find: 1 May 2019

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~5)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Discovered by the geologist Jianming Wang (Hami/Xinjiang) during field work about 160 km SE of Hami on May 1, 2019

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) broken 51 g individual with fresh thick (~1 mm) fusion crust

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) yellowish brown stained recrystallized matrix with poorly developed chondrules (0.3-2 mm, av. 0.8 mm), metal and sulfide.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10^-9 m³/kg) = 4.68

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L~5, W1)

Specimens: 10.26 g on deposit at Kiel, Ziyao Wang holds the main mass, and 6 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB109
  Table 0
  Line 0:

State/Prov/County:	Xinjiang
Origin or pseudonym:	desert
Date:	1 May 2019
Latitude:	41°59'28.11"N
Longitude:	95° 6'59.35"E
Mass (g):	51
Pieces:	1
Class:	L~5
Weathering grade:	W1
Magnetic suscept.:	4.68
Classifier:	R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):	10.26
Type spec location:	Kiel
Main mass:	Ziyao Wang
Finder:	Jianming Wang
Comments:	working name WZ154; 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. 109, in preparation (2020)

Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:

Photos:

Credit	Photos
Photos uploaded by members of the Encyclopedia of Meteorites. (Caution, these are of unknown reliability)
Ziyao Wang

Geography:

China

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(41° 59' 28"N, 95° 6' 59"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 298 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 5 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 462 approved meteorites from China (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)

Proximity search:

Direct link to this page