Notable meteorite find
NZPA-AFP Peking A batch of meteorites that fell on China in 1983 contains a rare substance that is the most primitive in the solar system and offers clues to the origin of life, Chinese scientists have said.. The substance, carbonaceous chondrite, is contained in 4.6 kg of meteorites
that fell in Ningqiang county, Shanxi province (north central China), on June 25, 1983, the New China News Agency reported. Scientists at Zhijinshan Observatory in Nanjing (east China) studying the meteorites have identified the substance, which has never before been found in China, said the report The
largest of the meteorites weighed 3.lkg. The scientists rank the meteorites as second only to Mexico’s Allende carbonaceous chondrite found in 1969, which they resemble.
All progress in the last 10 years on the origin of the solar system has been made through the study of carbonaceous chondrite, the agency said.
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