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Yangguanzhen 001
Basic information Name: Yangguanzhen 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2015
Country: China
Mass:help 8.7 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 107  (2018)  LL~6
Recommended:  LL~6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 24 approved meteorites classified as LL~6.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 16 Dec 2018
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 107:

Yangguanzhen 001        39°48’04"N, 94°18’56"E

Gansu, China

Find: 2015

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~6)

History: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Discovered by Liu Binghan in the desert near near Aksay/Gansu in 2015 and was purchased by Wang Ziyao, who donated it to R. Bartoschewitz.

Physical characteristics: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Brown 8.66 g stone.

Petrography: (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) Brown stainted recrystallized matrix with nearly complete recrystallized chondrules (0.6-1.0 mm)and few metal and sulphide specks, vugs partly filled with gypsum.

Geochemistry: Magnetic susceptibility (R. Bartoschewitz, Bart) log χ (× 10-9 m3/kg) = 4.08

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (LL~6, W3)

Specimens: 1.77 g on deposit at Kiel, main mass of 6.5 g with Bart.

Data from:
  MB107
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Gansu
Origin or pseudonym:desert
Date:2015
Latitude:39°48'04"N
Longitude:94°18'56"E
Mass (g):8.66
Pieces:1
Class:LL~6
Weathering grade:W3
Magnetic suscept.:4.08
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz
Type spec mass (g):1.77
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Bartoschewitz
Finder:Liu Binghan (Haixi, Qinghai)
Comments: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. 107, MAPS 55, 460-462
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Geography:

China
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (39° 48' 4"N, 94° 18' 56"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 14 approved meteorites from Gansu, China
     This is 1 of 489 approved meteorites from China (plus 13 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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