Nantan/Nandan historic meteorite from China (Iron type)
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When people see meteors, also incorrectly called shooting stars, they are actually seeing pieces of rock that fall or have been impulsed into a collision course with Earth.
These pieces of meteoroids mostly disintegrate with the air friction producing the shooting star effect and don't even reach the ground. When they are really big they may get through the atmosphere and hit the ground producing meteorites. Really giant ones produce craters and thousands of small fragments.
Offered here is an informative card of a historic meteorite that landed in between the towns of Lihu and Yaochai located in Nandan County, Guangxi, China. The card comes within a soft plastic sleeve which in turn comes within a hard plastic sleeve. The meteorites fragments are attached to the front of the card in a small 1/2 inch square plastic bag for your viewing pleasure.
Nantan iron meteorites are one of the rare witnessed iron meteorite falls in the world. The fall was recorded in 16th century Nantan, China in May, 1516. The Chinese needed steel; rocks rich with iron were unearthed in Nantan. But these "iron rocks" would not melt. This puzzled the farmer/collectors and they reported this fact. Upon further inspection the mostly hematite encased rocks were determined to be nickel / iron meteorites.
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When people see meteors, also incorrectly called shooting stars, they are actually seeing pieces of rock that fall or have been impulsed into a collision course with Earth.
These pieces of meteoroids mostly disintegrate with the air friction producing the shooting star effect and don't even reach the ground. When they are really big they may get through the atmosphere and hit the ground producing meteorites. Really giant ones produce craters and thousands of small fragments.
Offered here is an informative card of a historic meteorite that landed in between the towns of Lihu and Yaochai located in Nandan County, Guangxi, China. The card comes within a soft plastic sleeve which in turn comes within a hard plastic sleeve. The meteorites fragments are attached to the front of the card in a small 1/2 inch square plastic bag for your viewing pleasure.
Nantan iron meteorites are one of the rare witnessed iron meteorite falls in the world. The fall was recorded in 16th century Nantan, China in May, 1516. The Chinese needed steel; rocks rich with iron were unearthed in Nantan. But these "iron rocks" would not melt. This puzzled the farmer/collectors and they reported this fact. Upon further inspection the mostly hematite encased rocks were determined to be nickel / iron meteorites.
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