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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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Semarkona
Semarkona is an LL3.00 ordinary chondrite that fell near Semarkona, India, in 1940. Its minerals experienced exceptionally little thermal metamorphism on their parent asteroid, preserving chondrules, fine-grained material, and other evidence from the early solar system. Researchers use it to investigate primordial water, organic chemistry, magnetic fields, and the processes that formed the first s...
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