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LOT 1856
Natural History - Nantan Meteorite
FELL 1516 A.D., FOUND 1958 A.D.
1 7/8 in. (26 grams, 48 mm).
A nickel iron meteorite (111CD) with a composition of 92.35% iron and 6.96% nickel. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Nantan Nandan County, Guangxi Region, China.
From an old Lincoln, UK, collection.
Literature
See Graham, Bevan and Hutchison, Catalogue of Meteorites, Natural History Museum, 1985, p.253, for details of this fall.
Footnotes
The Nantan meteorite fell in 1516, as recorded in ancient Chinese texts; the fall exploded during descent which resulted in a shower of many individual iron meteorites over an area some 28km x 8km in Nantan County, Guangxi, China. Classified as an iron meteorite; 111CD Course Octohedrite, the composition is approximately 92% iron, 6% nickel and contains more than ten other minerals including kamacite, taenite, dominate, plessite, schreibersite, triolite, graphite and others.
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