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Re: Largest Meteorite?

To: GeoZay <GeoZay@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Largest Meteorite?
From: Bernd Pauli <bernd.pauli@lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:37:24 +0100
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GeoZay schrieb:

> Someone asked me this morning if I heard anything about the largest
> meteorite
> ever found from China...replacing the Hoba West Meteorite in S.
> Africa? I was
> not aware that anything larger than the Hoba West was found. Does
> anyone know
> anything about a meteorite in China to replace the Hoba West?
> George Zay

The largest Chinese iron mass I have in my database is the Xinjiang
(IIIE) iron. The main mass of this little known meteorite is said to
remain at the place of find. It was found before 1898 and weighs 28 tons
(9.66 %Ni, 17.22 ppm.Ga, 31.5 ppm.Ge, 0.23 ppm.Ir).

Regards, Bernd

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