120221 - Meteorite Fall near Xining China
Posted:
Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:50 pm
by David Entwistle
There are a couple of news reports, so far only in Chinese, of a significant meteorite a fall in the Xining region of China. The reports indicate the fall occured at 13:40 local time on February 11th, 2012. More to follow shortly.
See url for news report in Chinese.
http://news.qq.com/a/20120221/001687.htmhttp://news.sznews.com/content/2012-02/21/content_6483006.htm
Re: 120221 Meteorite Fall in Xining China
Posted:
Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:58 pm
by David Entwistle
As best I can work out, the location of the fall is around
here. There are more pictures on the Chinese meteorite forum
here.
Re: 120221 Meteorite Fall near Xining China
Posted:
Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:44 pm
by David Entwistle
There's now a video of an expedition to the fall site on the
Chinese meteorite forum and a
CNTV video news report posted to Youtube by jdcmeteorites.
Re: 120221 - Meteorite Fall near Xining China
Posted:
Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:54 pm
by David Entwistle
There are more images on the
Chinese meteorite forum, including this beauty.
Re: 120221 - Meteorite Fall near Xining China
Posted:
Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:53 pm
by Barwellian
Looks like it has some nice shock veins and slikensides...there seems to be some about for sale but as a lot of new falls these days it is overpriced compared to other material I've seen previously.