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Taijinaier 001
Basic information Name: Taijinaier 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: China
Mass:help 5.25 kg
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  H~5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 190 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 20 Jun 2022
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 111:

Taijinaier 001        37°57’58"N, 93°31’55"E

Qinghai, China

Find: Jun 2007

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~5)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Discovered by Haibin Zheng in the desert near West Taijinal Lake, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in June, 2007. He sold the meteorites to Binghan Liu.

Physical characteristics: (Ziyao Wang) Two gray-black stones, 3902 and 1346 g, with some fresh fusion crust and regmaglypts. There is some rust on the back.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) brown stained recrystallized matrix with well-developed chondrules, metal and sulfide are heavy oxidized.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 5.10

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H~5, W3)

Specimens: 21.0 g on deposit at Kiel, Binghan Liu holds the main mass, and 135 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Qinghai
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Date:Jun 2007
Latitude:37°57'58"N
Longitude:93°31'55"E
Mass (g):5248
Pieces:2
Class:H~5
Weathering grade:W3
Magnetic suscept.:5.10
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):21.0
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Binghan Liu
Finder:Haibin Zheng
Comments:working name WZ192; 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. 111, in preparation (2022)
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Geography:

China
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (37° 57' 58"N, 93° 31' 55"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 28 approved meteorites from Qinghai, China
     This is 1 of 462 approved meteorites from China (plus 10 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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