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Kirin
Jilin, also transliterated as Kirin, is an H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite shower that fell in Jilin Province, China, on March 8, 1976. Thousands of fragments were recovered from a broad strewn field after a large meteoroid fragmented in the atmosphere. The largest recovered piece weighs about 1,770 kilograms and is recognized as the largest individual stone recovered from a witnessed stony-meteor...
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Fukang
Fukang is a pallasite meteorite found near Fukang in China's Xinjiang region around 2000. Its cut surfaces reveal large, translucent olivine crystals embedded in a metallic matrix composed chiefly of iron and nickel, the characteristic structure of pallasites. The original mass was reported at approximately one metric tonne, and sections are studied and collected for both their meteoritic composit...
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