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| Basic information | Name: Shangdu This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1957 Country: China Mass:  247 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 336 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IIIAB. [show all] Search for other: IIIAB irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 74:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Shangdu, revised entry Nei Monggol, China Found 1957 Iron. Medium octahedrite (IIIA, kamacite bandwidth 1.1mm) Listed in Graham et al. (1985) as coarse octahedrite (IIIE) according to analysis by Bian (1981). John T. Wasson and Wang Daode (pers. comm. 1992) report that the Hebei iron listed in Malvin et al. (1984) is actually Shangdu. They have classified this meteorite as medium octahedrite, group IIIA. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 74, Meteoritics 28, 146-153 (1993)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 26 approved meteorites from Nei Mongol, China (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 453 approved meteorites from China (plus 9 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Hebei (iron) (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||