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Loulan Yizhi 010
Basic information Name: Loulan Yizhi 010
     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 202 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 11 Feb 2019
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Writeup from MB 108:

Loulan Yizhi 010        40°26’22.67"N, 89°39’09.12"E

Xinjiang, China

Find: Nov 2018

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~5)

History: (Ziyao Wang) Purchased by Ziyao Wang from the finder Tailu Zhao (Shanshan County, Xinjiang) in Shanshan/Xinjiang in 2018. This meteorite was discovered in Nov. 2018.

Physical characteristics: Yellow brown, irregularly shaped stone of 202 g

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) brown, recrystallized matrix, with poorly defined chondrules, metal and sulfide

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 3.71

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~5, W4)

Specimens: 20.9 g on deposit at Kiel, Ziyao Wang holds the main mass, and 23 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB108
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Xinjiang
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Date:Nov 2018
Latitude:40°26'22.67"N
Longitude:89°39'09.12"E
Mass (g):202
Pieces:1
Class:LL~5
Weathering grade:W4
Magnetic suscept.:3.71
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):20.9
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Ziyao Wang
Finder:Tailu Zhao (Shanshan)
Comments:working name WZ78; 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::   (40° 26' 23"N, 89° 39' 9"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 322 approved meteorites from Xinjiang, China (plus 6 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 489 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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