Nantan Meteorites

 The Nantan meteorite was believed to have fallen in Nandan County of Guangxi Province, China, in May of 1516.  Even though the fall was recorded at the time, it was ignored until 1958.  The Nantan meteorite appears to have broken up in the air as pieces of it are found scattered over an area of about 400 square miles.   It is estimated that the total weight was about 9,500 KG.

This is a group III-CD iron meteorite classed as a coarse octahedrite.  On average the composition is 92.35% Iron, 6.96% Nickel with minor amounts of Carbon, Copper, Cobalt, Sulphur, Phosphorus, Cromium, Gallenium, Germanium, and many different trace elements. There are a number of scarce minerals found in it, including kamacite, taenite, plessite, scheribersite, triolite, graphite, spherlite, sideroferrite, dyslytite, cliftonite and lawrencite. 

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