[meteorite-list] Armanty?

[Alexander Seidel]

> Ist that the Armanty mass?
> http://kuerzer.de/armanti 
> Buckleboo!
> Martin

Here a supplement to Martin´s question:

A large mass of iron was found before before 1900; in 1965 it was transported to its present location in Urumchi, V.F.Buchwald, Handbook of Iron Meteorites, 1975, 2, p.274; see also, Sky and Teleskope, 1965, p.347. Description, analysis, 9.92% Ni, O.S.Vyalov, Meteoritika, 1949, 5, p.23. Analysis, 9.09% Ni, M.I.Dyakonova, Meteoritika, 1958, 16, p.180 Meteoritika, 1959, 17, p.96. Listed with references, D.Bian, Meteoritics, 1981, 16, p.120. Classification and analysis, 9.1% Ni, 16.2 ppm Ga, 31.5 ppm Ge, 0.23 ppm Ir, A.Kracher et al., GCA, 1980, 44, p.773. The weight of the Armanty mass is about 28 tons, the third largest meteoritic mass in the world, Y.Chen and Y.Sun, Geochimica, 1986, p.271. Detailed description, study of compositional variation, J.T.Wasson et al., Meteoritics, 1988, 23, p.365. Listed, the correct name is Xinjiang, Y.Chen and D.Wang, Meteoritics, 1994, 29, p.886. Further analysis, N.Sugiura et al., MAPS, 2000, 35, p.749.

main mass: Wulumuqi, Exhibition Center
930g: Beijing, Planetarium
44.4g: Moscow, Acad. Sci.
17.5g: Algonquin, DuPont Colln.
3.3g: Los Angeles, Univ. of Calif.

(source: MetBase 7.1)