{"id":31728,"date":"2022-12-18T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=31728"},"modified":"2023-01-21T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T22:09:06","slug":"apparent-meteorite-fall-in-pujiang-county-jinhua-china-at-550-local-on-15-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=31728","title":{"rendered":"TANXI meteorite fall (H6, >10.7 kg) in Tanxi (\u6a80\u6eaa\u9547), Pujiang County (\u6d66\u6c5f\u53bf), Jinhua (\u91d1\u534e\u5e02), Zhejiang Province (\u6d59\u6c5f\u7701), China at ~17:48:42- (CST)\/ 9:48:42 (UT) on 15 December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Meteorite fall (H6) in and around the villages Maodian, Chengtou and Siqian, within Tanxi Township, Pujiang County, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China. According to media reports it fell around 17:48:42 (CST) \/ 9:48:42 (UTC) on 15 December 2022. Initially three masses were found. Later other finds (egg- to fist-sized specimens) had been reported inofficially, at least three to four masses by 21 December 2022, like a 487.3-gram mass which has been found in a water-filled impact hole at the edge of a rice field near location 29\u00b037’53.6″N 119\u00b055’44.3″E<\/a>. Another ~420-gram mass was reportedly found around location 29\u00b037’51.8″N 119\u00b056’27.9″E<\/a> and a larger meteorite mass was found at location 29\u00b037’32.4″N 119\u00b056’46.9″E<\/a> on 31 December 2022. Furthermore, there are unconfirmed social media reports of a 1385-gram mass, a 759.8-gram mass and a 692.8-gram mass which have reportedly been found as well. Apparently also several smaller specimens have been found. On 16 January 2023 the meteorite fall was officially registered as Tanxi<\/strong><\/a> (H6, S1, W0) in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first meteorite mass (~355 g, ~8×5 cm, H6 chondrite) was found by Wang Yinglai (\u738b\u82f1\u6765) from the Chengtou Village (\u57ce\u5934\u6751) at location 29\u00b037’43.9″N 119\u00b055’52.2″E<\/a> in the Tanxi Township, Pujiang. 79-year-old Wang Yinglai reports: “I had just finished eating and was sitting in front of my house when I suddenly heard a sound like thunder, and then a stone fell and landed on the concrete floor in front of my house, about 20 meters away from me.” The meteorite was taken to Hangzhou by his son-in-law. A 5-gram sample has been cut off, and the staff of the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau of Pujiang County sent it to the Third Geological Brigade of Zhejiang Province for testing. A Ms. Zhou, a villager living nearby the impact location, reports she heard a loud noise, like a tire exploding on a cart, and the windows were shaking. Later, she heard that the windows of villagers and several street lamps were shattered. The impact dent in the concrete is about 10 cm wide, with a smaller and deeper dent in the centre (~3×5 cm wide). The attempted removal of the impact dent in the concrete by cutting it out was stopped by Wang Yinglai and the villagers because they didn’t want to have the impact location destroyed. Later the local police cordoned off the impact site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ~355-gram mass at its find location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ~355-gram mass from Chengtou Village. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Villagers in Siqian Village (\u5bfa\u524d\u6751) 29\u00b037’36.6″N 119\u00b056’43.2″E<\/a>, Tanxi Township (\u6a80\u6eaa\u9547) found another meteorite (~77.9 gram) which hit the gate of villager Chen Qunhong’s house. At the time of the fall Chen Qunhong’s family was eating in the restaurant next door and heard a loud noise in the sky. Chen Qunhong (\u9648\u7fa4\u7ea2) : “It was like an explosion. The doors and windows of the house shook. We thought it was somewhere. The gas tank at home exploded, so I didn’t care, and continued to eat.” A minute or two later, the sound of glass being smashed came from Chen Qunhong’s front yard, so the whole family ran out to check and found a hole in the glass window about 2 meters high above the gate. “It is double-glazed, and the outer layer of glass was smashed with a hole, and the aluminum alloy decorative crosspiece was also smashed into a small hole. I looked around and there was nothing there.” Because Chen Qunhong’s house was on the side of the road, he thought the glass window was broken by a stone that was crushed by a roadside car, or a child playing marbles mischievously, so he continued to eat. After the meal, the family went outside the house, cleaned up the broken glass all over the floor, and picked up a stone by the door. He inspected the stone and later a friend came to tell him that a meteorite had fallen in Chengtou Village. Then Chen Qunhong knew what he had in his hand. Chen Qunhong picked up the meteorite about 10 minutes after its fall and reports that it was not warm or hot when he touched it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The meteorite Chen Qunhong found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hole in the glass above the entrance door. Photo: A\u5927\u4fe0\u7684\u5263\u8207\u7e04<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest mass (~12 x 8 cm) was reportedly found in Maodian Village (\u6bdb\u5e97\u6751) at location 29\u00b037’59.6″N 119\u00b055’57.5″E<\/a>. Villager Chen Genhua (\u9648\u6839\u82b1), in her 60s, and her husband heard a loud noise (“The sound was like thunder.”) while taking a walk after dinner, after they had passed the bridge from Maodian Village to the town government of Tanxi Town, they saw a flash of white light lasting about five to six seconds and went on walking. Later they found a pit (1-2 cm deep, ~12-15 cm wide) on the side of the road with a black stone in the pit in the asphalt, about 200 metres away from the village. They kicked the rock to the side and went on. After returning home, at around 7 pm they read in a WeChat group that people in the village nearby had “picked up meteorites”, so they went to pick up the stone (“When I picked it up, it felt a little warm, a little warm.”) and weighed it. It weighed about 1.7 kilograms. Chen Genhua wrapped the stone in a green plastic bag and put it in a wedding candy box. The impact dent in the road has been cut out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1.7-kg mass <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1.7-kg mass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 1.7-kg mass <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chen Genhua showing the fall location of her find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reported impact dent on the road in Maodian Village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two fragments of a 487.3-gram specimen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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