[meteorite-list] Chinese meteorite fall--any ideas on which one? 2007-07-05 update

[Michael Farmer]

So where is that meteorite? any photos? does anyone
have specimens?
Michael Farmer

--- Zelimir.Gabelica at uha.fr wrote:


> May 27!

> My birthday....

> Dirk, save a fragment of this meteorite for me if

> ever you happnen to  

> get some. I haven't got any birhstone in my

> collection so far.

> 

> Zelimir

> 

> Btw: I will be in Dalian (Liaoning Prov.) in 2 weeks

> from now. How far  

> is Heihe from Dalian ?

> 

> 

> drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> a écrit :

> 

> > Dear List,

> >   Found this in the Chinese news.  May 27 was

> given as

> > the fall date, published 2007-07-05.

> >

> > Meteorite crash lands just 2m from farm worker

> >

> > A meteorite formed some 4.6 billion years ago,

> landed

> > on the banks of a fish pond in Heihe,

> Heilongjiang, on

> > May 27 right in front of a worker, Song.

> >

> > "That evening, the meteorite with its largest

> pieces

> > the size of an ordinary steamed-bread, struck the

> bank

> > with tremendous force and sound, creating a crater

> > just 2 meters from me," Song said. "I tremble at

> the

> > very thought of it."

> >

> > "As far as I know, the distance between where the

> > meteorite landed and its witness is the closest we

> > have seen in this country," Zhang Baolin, an

> expert

> > from the Beijing Planetarium, said.

> >

> > (Beijing Evening News)

> >

> > Dirk Ross...Tokyo

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