25 Ton Meteorite Found in China

Large-sized meteorite found in the mountainous northwest China. Stone weighing about 25 tons was estimated to one of the largest meteorite ever.

Stones found in the Altai Mountains, Xinjiang Province, it is a meteorite that contains a lot of nickel-known by the term "iron meteorite". "Perhaps this meteorite is the second largest iron meteorite," said Zang Baolin, a specialist in meteorites from the Beijing Planetarium.

Currently the largest meteorite found in Namibia, weighing approximately 60 tons. Zhang's estimate, the mass of the meteorite Xinjiang is in the range between 25-30 tons.

Meteorite giant granite slabs protruding from the larger. The part that lies above the ground has a length of 2.3 meters with a width half the length. Zhang in an interview with China Central Television said that the meteorite came from outside the solar system.

Earlier this month, Zhang Baolin, a meteorite researcher expert in the field of the Beijing Planetarium, has formed a special team to investigate reports that a meteor. The team climbed to the peak height of 9500 feet (2900 meters), and began to identify major rock star with this brown color.

According to Meenakshi Wadhwa of the Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, most of the meteorites formed 4 billion years ago, when the solar system formed, "This finding is a potential to provide data related to the history of the formation of the solar system.

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