Meteorites   View all facts   Glossary   Help
rock > meteorite > meteorite fall > Ningqiang
Next meteorite fallNovo Urei    Upmeteorite fall, ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite    Previous meteorite fallMurchison   

Ningqiang comparison table
Subject has sediment mechanism has weather resistance has metal abundance has part mean Ni content of sulfide has age has refractory inclusion abundance is an instance of has distinguishing feature has part feldspar has part metal maximum bulk has fragmentation probability has fall location has fall date has name has fall description has weather has homogeneity of olivine and low Ca pyroxene has chondrule abundance has relative abundance has curatorial location has part chondrule has abundance has petrologic subtype has value has total mass of find has structural state of low Ca pyroxene has peak temperature has parent body has part matrix has matrix abundance has petrologic type range has fall coordinate has part carbon is a kind of has part water has mass has image has number of find has ablative mass loss has definition has chondrule mean diameter
meteorite fall which depends on its composition        during meteor phase which depends on compositionstrewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocityrecorded by eyewitness or instrumentsbased on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurredwhat witnesses saw or what was recorded by instrumentsnegligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion begins       higher because the fall was witnessed485755 kg      in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude meteorite   1691directly proportional to initial velocitya meteorite whose fall was witnessed by human or electronic means 
ungrouped carbonaceous chondriteagglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieslowin volume %in weight %oldest and most primitive rock in solar systemin volume % elemental carbonusually plagioclase tectosilicatein weight %high because it is more friable than iron meteoritestrewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocityrecorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methodsbased on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred  definition goes herein volume %8 % of meteorite falls small sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted mineralsrare relative to other chondrite types  2577 kgdefinition goes hereless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diameterfine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituentsin volume %which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphismin degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitudein weight %carbonaceous chondritein weight %  36high because it is more friable than iron meteorite millimeters
Ningqiangagglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse historieswhich depends on its compositionin volume %in weight %oldest and most primitive rock in solar systemin volume %meteorite fallelemental carbonusually plagioclase tectosilicatein weight %during meteor phase which depends on compositionNingqiang County, Shaanxi Province, ChinaJune 25, 1983 7:00 pmNingqiangwhat witnesses saw or what was recorded by instrumentsnegligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion beginsdefinition goes herein volume % Zijin Shan Observatory, Academia Sinica, in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Chinasmall sphere of about 1 mm diameter of formerly melted mineralsrare relative to other chondrite types3.3higher because the fall was witnessed485755 kgdefinition goes hereless than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidificationasteroid smaller than 100 km in diameterfine grained disequilibrium mixture of silicates, oxides, metal, sulfides and organic constituentsin volume %which depends on degree of aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism32° 55.5' N., 105° 54.4' E.in weight % in weight %4.61 kg
1691directly proportional to initial velocity millimeters

Next meteorite fallNovo Urei    Upmeteorite fall, ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite    Previous meteorite fallMurchison