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Re: FUYU


This is some more information of the Songyuan (Fuyu Meteorites).
According to the report of China's geography mine newspaper, In the
afternoon of August,15,1993, The countryside of Songyuan city, Jilin
privince fell suddenly meteorites rain, 4 meteorites were collected. The
biggest one weighs 28kg, and the smallest one weighs 2.5kg. it can be seen
in the site, when the biggest meteorite fell in the ground, inserted in the
earth for 60cm, the radius of the meteorite pit is 20cm. It is estimated
that the fallen area is about 10 square km, and some meteorite maybe in the
field. The specility think about that this time meteorites falling is same
type with the meteorites falling in Jilin city, 1976, They all belong to
stone meteorite. These meteorites have many faces cubic shape, the faces of
them have black crust as they falling in high temperature. These meteorites
are collected in Fuyu district museum of Songyuan city.
Sincerely Yours,
Bob Yew
Email:bobyew@hotmail.com
URL:  Chinese Meteorite and Tektite
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/bobyew

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Grossman <jgrossman@usgs.gov>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: FUYU


>I have some data on this meteorite.  It looks like the name
>is not going to be Fuyu, but rather SONGYUAN.  Dr. Wang Daode
>from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
>tells me it fell 1993 August 15 at 14:30-15:00 local time, mass of
>largest stone 28 kg(39x29x14 cm).  Alan Rubin has classified it
>as L6.  Matt Morgan sent me additional information, including
>that 4 stones were recovered over 10 sq. km.
>
>This name has NOT been approved yet by the Nomenclature Committee,
>so please refer to it as "Songyuan (provisional name)".
>
>jeff
>
>
>
>At 09:42 PM 11/11/99 , you wrote:
>>Dear List Members:
>>
>>I recently purchased a small slice of FUYU from an internet meteorite
dealer.
>>  I require some information about locality, coordinates, type etc?  Does
>>anyone have this information to share.  Thank you.
>>
>>Sincerely
>>Greg Shanos
>>
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