[meteorite-list] New Fall in China further information

[Jim Wooddell]

Hi Wu!

I had not seen this post you mention and your assumptions about my 
information source are not correct and the link you provided does not have 
the information I received.  I do not know where the information I received 
from my source came from, other than China.  However, I am glad you are 
sharing more information.  As information comes in, many reports get twisted 
and pretty soon fact and fiction become one.

It is my understanding that many stones have been recovered. 12.5kg, 10kg, 
2- 5kg, 2.5kg and a 4.2kg.  I do not know the originating source of this 
information.

The news media in my area has not reported this event to the best of my 
knowledge and today is the first I had heard about it.  A quick search of AP 
news did not indicate anything from China recently doing a search for 
'meteor'.  It was a quick non-advanced search.  In regards to media, it has 
basically not been "breaking" news for what-ever reason.

Has it been determined what kind of meteorites are being recovered?

If you are hunting, I do hope you find more and I wish you good luck!

Kind Regards,


Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "博方 李" <bryanlilee at yahoo.com.cn>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Cc: <nf114ec at npgcable.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New Fall in China further information


Hi Jim and lists,
I am sure that Jim's source must got the information from the media, and 
here is the original link for the news the source provided to Jim:

http://tech.sina.com.cn/d/2012-02-22/14026755191.shtml

Unfortunately the linked original news was in Chinese. If anyone here could 
translate the news especially the last 3 paragraphs to Jim, I will be 
appriciated, cause I don't have the time to do that at the moment.

If Jim had seen the information and pictures I provided yesterday, I think 
Jim will change his mind regarding the news. The so called "expert" is that 
who claimed to have found the "translucent crystal things" in the mitrix of 
a meteorite fragment. Acturally, the tanslucent crystal things are qurtz and 
sand embeded in the concrete fragment,which were broken from the concrete 
road in Yehong village. And this big funny joke is just included in the 
above linked news,the third downcounted paragraph.

I was in the falling area for two times and collected the information from 
over 50 witnesses who lived in the different 4 villages. All of the 
witnesses in the falling area have not seen the big fireball, instead they 
all heard the big resonating noises. However, there is some people who realy 
had seen the fireball explosion while hiking in the neighboring county, 
which is North East about 40 Kg from the falling area. Those Hiking people 
reported the event to Qinghai news media,and had been published.

The so called expert Zhang Baolin confused the concept of "fragment" and 
"individual". What I had seen is until now there is only 1 individual had 
been collected,which is 12.5kg. I cannot say there is only one individual 
exist,but hundreds of individuals are not true!

Best wishes!
Wu Yonghui
IMCA1371
Email:wyh619 at 163.com





According to my source, this news missed most news sources.  100's of
witnesses at lunch time saw this huge fireball and experts estimate hundreds
of stones still on the ground, in the snow estimated from 5g to 20kg.  Many
specimens recovered in a 6km x 3km zone.  I believe the largest recovered
specimen is about 12.5kg
I suspect we should be seeing some of this in the near future!

Cheers!


Jim



Jim Wooddell
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