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Article: Over 100-ton Aerolite Discovered in NW China
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 23, 2000
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A group of aerolites, which cover several square kilometers in
area, have been found in northern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,
northwest China.
Zhang Hui, an assistant research fellow with the Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Regional Museum, said that the biggest aerolite among the
group is estimated to weigh over 100 tons. The heaviest aerolite so
far discovered in the world weighs 60 tons, found in Namibia in
1920.
Zhang, who discovered the iron meteorites in Qinghe County, said
that the number of this group of cloud stones is estimated at
several thousand.
An aerolite weighing 32 tons was also ...