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

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:39:43 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <490333.43712.qm_at_web33102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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 ??crit? :
>
> > 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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