[meteorite-list] Nantan Question

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:03 2004
Message-ID: <3C670002.A0009CBC_at_tkc.att.ne.jp>

Dear Bernd, and Greg,
  I will also check Needham's series if I can find all vols. in my mess. Science
and Civilisation in China Vols. I-III. Dirk

Bernd Pauli HD wrote:

> Greg Redfern wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if the Nantan Iron find in China has an established fall
> > date of 1521? I saw a specimen advertised that listed the fall date which is
> > not contained in the COM.
>
> Hi Greg and List,
>
> You won't find it in M. Grady's Catalogue because this information
> cannot be ascertained. I once heard about reports which are said to
> exist in the archives of Nandan County about a fall that occurred in
> 1516, sometime in May. But it wasn't before 1958 that people in
> China became aware of this historical record. I don't know if that
> is true but, at least, that's the date we find in the Catalogue.
>
> Buchwald doesn't mention Nantan and Wasson doesn't either. There
> is an article in Meteoritics 29-6, 1994 on Chinese meteorite falls but
> there is no mention of Nantan and 1521:
>
> YAU K. et al. (1994) Meteorite Falls in China and Some Ralated
> Human Casualty Events (Meteoritics 29-6, 1994, 864-871).
>
> In the same issue of Meteoritics, there is another article and the
> authors do mention Nantan as a IIICD iron but they also give the
> same date (1958) that you find in the Catalogue:
>
> CHEN Y. and WANG D. (1994) An Update of a Catalog of
> Chinese Meteorites (Meteoritics 29-6, 1994, 886-890).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bernd
>
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