Museum indulges in meteorite mania

By Zhang Fang
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Jilin City Museum displays the meteorites from a large meteorite shower in Jilin City, northeastern China on Mar. 8, 1976, and is the first and largest meteorite museum in China. The rare meteorite shower covering 500 square kilometers appeared in Jilin City. Of the four tons of fragments of the type H5 chondrite recovered, one piece weighed 1,770 kilograms, is the largest single fragment of stony meteorite ever found. [Zhang Fang/ China.org.cn]

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