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Photos by Dr. Svend Buhl (Meteorite Recon), Hamburg. Copyright (c) Dr. Svend Buhl (Meteorite Recon), Hamburg.
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95.35 gram end-cut. Iron, IAB-sLH
TKW 700 kg. Fall not observed. Found 6 October 2016, Xinjiang, China.
  
Matthias writes:
From Svend Buhl:
This is a 94.35 g end-cut with beautiful etch and one natural surface. With a band width of only <0.035 mm, Huoyanshan hides its beauty in the submillimeter range. Viewed with a loupe or stereo microscope, the iron reveals a unique, cryptographic pattern, perpetuating in bizarre cuneiform. Huoyanshan is hard to acquire, difficult to etch, and even more challenging to photograph, yet truly one of the most rewarding meteoritic irons to study.
From the MetBul:
The find site is 15 km NE of the Mountain Huoyanshan, which was noted in the famous Chinese 16th century novel "A Journey to the West" (attributed to Wu Cheng’en) as having emerged from pieces of charcoal on fire falling from Heaven.
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Found at the arrow (green or red) on the map below
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John lutzon
12/17/2023 1:26:39 PM |
Nice 'texture' on your Huoyanshan. Just noticed, #4 looks like an aerial view of the grid of a large city with many tall skyscrapers. |
John Divelbiss
12/13/2023 11:55:50 AM |
Cool iron...looks like a flux-rich slag. Thanks for sharing. |
Mike Murray
12/13/2023 10:50:22 AM |
Nice piece Matthias. |
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