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Found in China
The Nantan
Meteorite fall was recorded in Nantan County's archives
in 1516. It is recorded as: Zhengde (the Chinese Emperor
in the Ming Dynasty) 11th year, summertime in May. "Stars
fell down from a northwest direction, five or six fold
long, waving like snakes and dragons, bright like lightning
then disappeared in seconds." The first find was
recorded in 1958 when the Chinese needed an abundance
of steel for constructing "New China". The
people were told to go out and find iron ore. At this
time even cooking woks were being melted to produce
steel. Finding the heavy rock rich with iron seemed
a lucky find but unfortunately the iron rocks would
not melt. This puzzled the people causing them to send
a report to the Chinese central government. Geologist
arrived to inspect the rocks and determined them to
be iron meteorites. The meteorite was distributed in
northwesterly direction over an area of 27 to 28 kilometers
long and 8 kilometers wide. 6.8% Nickel. 89% Iron.
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When meteorites
fall they distribute over an area that can be miles
long. That must have been quite a show considering the
fact that most of the "falling stars" we see
are only about size of a grain of sand . |
