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Sharps
Sharps is an H3.4 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell in Virginia in 1921. Its classification places it among relatively unequilibrated H-group chondrites, which contain abundant metal and preserve chondrules and other early solar system textures more clearly than strongly heated ordinary chondrites. The material is therefore useful to meteoriticists investigating primitive asteroid matter, the...
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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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