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

[Zelimir.Gabelica at uha.fr]

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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