LOW PRICE! INCREDIBLE INDIVIDUAL! AMAZING ALETAI IRON METEORITE! CHINA! 308.6 GM

Description: AMAZING ALETAI METEORITE!!! Chinese Iron Formerly Known as Armanty!!!Bright & Shiny Incredible Individual!!!Great Deal for the Lowest Price!!! Classification: Iron, IIIE-AN Iron!!! Find: June 1898!!! Location: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Aletai, China Total Known Weight: 74 Tons!!!Weight: 308.6 grams!!! AletaiBasic informationName: Aletai This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1898 Country: China Mass: 74 t Classification history:Meteoritical Bulletin: MB 105 (2016) Iron, IIIERecommended: Iron, IIIE-an This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, IIIE-an. Comments:Approved 27 Nov 2016 Revised 3 Oct 2021: New mass foundWriteupWriteup from MB105 Nomenclature of the Aletai (IIIE-an) iron meteorites from Xinjiang, China Chemical and petrographic analyses of multiple iron meteorite masses in the northern part of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, indicate pairing of these masses with the Armanty (IIIE) iron. All of these iron meteorites, as well any paired material that may be discovered in the future, will henceforth carry the official name “Aletai,” the name of a local county. The names “Armanty,” “Xinjiang (B),” and “Xinjiang 008” (a provisional name) are now abolished, and become synonyms for Aletai. In a previous action (MetBull 95), the name “Ulasitai” was abolished, and made a synonym for Armanty; “Ulasitai” will now become a synonym for Aletai. This entry also corrects previously published coordinates for the 28 tonne Armanty mass, announces several new masses, and presents compositional data by J.T. Wasson, UCLA, for five of the paired masses. The masses form a NW-SE array, spanning approximately 425 km across China and a sliver of Mongolia (although no masses have been reported from Mongolia). The new nomenclatural system for these irons is analogous to the grouping, some decades ago, of previously named IIAB irons under the name “North Chile.” When referring generally to the irons, authors should use the names “Aletai” and “North Chile.” When referring to a specific mass, authors should identify it as, for example, the "Armanty mass of Aletai" or the "Filomena mass of North Chile." The list of recommended mass names for Aletai appears in the table below. The coordinates listed for this entry correspond to the corrected location at which the Armanty mass was discovered. Discovery of the Wuxilike mass of Aletai: History: A large iron was found by a local farmer in a valley in a mountainous area of Aletai County. It was surrounded by rocks and half buried. A small specimen was taken for analysis. Heavy machinery was used to move the meteorite from the valley to the discoverer’s home. Physical characteristics: The kamacite bandwidth is 0.89±0.41 mm. Petrography: The major phases of the meteorite are kamacite, taenite, and plessite. Minor phases include schreibersite, daubréelite, troilite, and haxonite. Discovery of the Akebulake mass of Aletai: An account of the discovery of this large iron mass in a remote mountainous region was published by Beatty (2011) based on a trip there by Ayisha in June 2011. It has an irregular surface with partial regmaglypts but has been severely affected by terrestrial weathering. The iron is dark-brown; it was partly covered by a granite slab on the side of a mountain. Its exterior was marked by several scrawls of graffiti and cuts. Aletai City officials worried that the meteorite would be further damaged they built a road and moved the Akebulake mass to the Aletai city hall in 2011. Table 1. Known masses of Aletai. Analyses by J. T. Wasson, UCLA, See MetBull 104 for an analysis of Xinjiang (b). Aletai is an anomalous IIIE. It has the highest Au concentration in the group, and its Ir concentration is much higher than that inferred through the trend of the other group members. Mass namemassLatitudeLongitude CoNiCuGaAsWIrAu (N)(E) mg/gmg/gµg/gµg/gµg/gng/gµg/gµg/gArmanty28 t45°52.272'90°30.279' 5.1597.810916.914.40.280.2281.810Akebulake18 t48°6.25'88°16.57' 5.1798.811016.915.10.320.2241.814Wuxilike15 t48°3.13'88°22.32' 5.2098.010517.015.80.260.2341.862Ulasitai20.43 t44°57'24"91°24'09" 5.2196.910816.715.00.280.2351.894Xinjiang (b),335 kg47°58.7'88°13.1' (unnamed)15 kg(see note 4) 5.2293.29516.415.50.310.2301.8551 Was given the provisional name Xinjiang 0082 Published in MetBull 90 as a distinct meteorite3 Published as a distinct IIIAB iron in MetBull 1044 Found in the Xiaodonggou region close to the place where Wuxilike and Akebulake were found Writeup from MB 110: Aletai, discovery of new large mass History: A new, 23 tonne mass of Aletai was found recently in a pasture of Aletai county (48°2’17"N, 88°23’3"E) in June, 2021. It was buried by soil and grass and covered with light-brown rust. The place where this mass was found is quite close to the coordinates for the Wuxilike and Akebulake masses of Aletai. The nearest place is named WuQilike on the Baidu map.Geochemistry: The mass is mainly composed of kamacite (6.82-7.21 wt.% Ni) and taenite (14.45-41.13 wt.% Ni),with minor plessite, schreibersite (34.20-48.86 wt.% Ni) and haxonite (4.68-4.87 wt.% Ni, 0.13-0.27 wt.% Co). Haxonite is present in the center of plessite. Kamacite bandwidth is about 1.0±0.2 mm. Composition of metallic Fe-Ni and the occurrence of haxonite is compatible with IIIE iron.Classification: Paired with Aletai.Specimens: Held by Aletai Department of Natural Resources. A specimen of 20 g is deposited at PMO. BUYER TO PAY $6 FOR USPS GROUND ADVANTAGE SHIPPING WITH TRACKING ANYWHERE IN THE U.S.A. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING TO BE HANDLED THRU THE EBAY INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING DEPARTMENT. COSTS WILL BE CALCULATED FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL LOCATION. INSURANCE IS AT THE COST OF THE BUYER AND IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 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