Home about us iron meteorites iron meteorite slices stony iron meteorites meteorite nuggets. One deals with large impacts on the earth including the siberian fall. Master of horror stephen kings first effort at an xfile sees scullys well deserved vacation going terribly wrong and landing her in a small maine town where one of the residents is believed to be a witch, and her autistic daughters doll has. This popular nontechnical introduction to the fascinating world of meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters is now even better. This means that ancient peoples of the region were exploring the site of the chinga meteorite over a thousand years before modern researchers discovered it in 1917. The chinga meteorite was first discovered in the chinga river bed in tanna tuva, turvinskaya, russia in 1911. Drawing on the latest information from key meteorite falls, it explains what meteorites are, where they come from, and what they can tell us about our solar system and the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets it.
The hodges meteorite, or sylacauga meteorite, is currently on exhibit at the alabama museum of natural history. Chinga the xfiles, an episode of the television series the xfilesspanish profanity meaning fuck. Many massesincluding individuals up to 20kgof total weight about 80kg were found in the chinga stream, a tributary of the upper yenisey from the tannu ola mountains. Priceless tibetan buddha statue looted by nazis was carved. The chinga meteorite came down in the area of the chinge river in the tuva province of southern russia, near the mongolian border. When i was a little boy growing up in england in the late 1960s, my greatest treat was traveling up to londons marvelous geological museum now part of the natural history museum, london to visit their mineral and meteorite collections. Chinga meteorite stock image c0371687 science photo.
Tanna tuva, tuvinskaya, russia, 51 3 30n, 94 24 0e found. Pdf buddha from space an ancient object of art made of. Nazi space buddha was meteorite, includes swastika. A complete microelement analysis of the chinga meteorite was performed, and the possibility of attributing it together with a number of other iron meteorites into the ivc subgroup, which is transition between iva and ivb is proposed. Chinga meteorite chinga ataxite arizona skies meteorites. It is the end member of the monoclinic pyroxene series mgsio 3 esio 3. Media in category chinga meteorite the following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. It is an iron 83 % meteorite with a relatively high content of nickel 16, 6 %, a type of meteorite known as an achondrite. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. This specimen has been cut and polished on two sides, in a labor intensive process, to a gorgeous mirrorlike finish.
Many flattened, shrapnellike iron masses having a combined weight of 210 kg were found along the chinge stream bed in tannu tuva, which at the time was a small independent country between mongolia and siberia. It is structurally an ataxite with very rare kamacite lamella. Chinga meteorite the chinga meteorite was found in the chinga river bed in tanna tuva, turvinskaya, russia in 1911 north of present day mongolia. As a comparison, the more expensive zanda and rotatu book on meteorites and impacts was quite similar in content. Chinga ataxite iron meteorites for sale the meteorite market. Chingas are a beautiful and rare type of iron meteorite known as an ataxite. Today, meteorite collectors will refer to their trusty ataxites, such as chinga. Acapulcoite aca primitive achondrite that belongs to a small group named after the acapulco meteorite that was observed to fall in mexico in 1976.
An exceptional aerial color photograph of meteor crater, arizona, blanketed with a winter snow fall, is featured on the back cover see the second illustration at the left. The meteoric iron is a part of the lamella taenite. Superb, large 773 gram polished chinga meteorite quartercut. Even more exceptionally, the researchers were able to pin down exactly which meteorite it had been carved out of. Ataxites have a very high nickel content chinga meteorite contain 16% nickel. A 275kg slice of mundrabilla is a chief showpiece in the permane nt meteorite exhibition of the british museum of natural history. Ataxites have a very high nickel content chingas contain 16% nickel. At the request of it new owner researchers dated it to a specific in the history of astronomy when the chinga meteorite fell in the borders of eastern siberia and mongolia between1020,000 years ago, declaring the icon to be made of a rare ataxite class, the rarest meteorite type that has ever fallen to earth, carved by the pretibetan bon culture in the 11thc. Iron meteorites for sale iron meteorites are composed largely of nickeliron metal, and most contain only minor accessory minerals. See more ideas about lunar meteorite, the martian and minerals. A political ward in the othaya constituency, kenya people. Buchners team of researchers from germany and austria dated it to a specific event in astronomy history when the chinga meteorite fell in the border region of eastern siberia and mongolia between. The boxhole meteorite crater is 170 meters in diameter, and is a very wellpreserved impact, supposedly dating to only around 5,500 years buffalo gap, iabungrouped we wrote the meteoritical bulletin writeup for this iron.
This high nickel content results in a lack of any visible widmanstatten. Trace element composition and classification of the chinga. Most specimens are ripped shrapnellike pieces, so the meteorite ripped apart very violently upon entry. Santiago papasquiero is a strange ataxite that appears to be a completely metamorphosed and recrystallized octahedrite. Mar 25, 2020 the statue could well have been forged with remains gathered from the impact site. The santiago papasquiero meteorite, an ataxite found in 1958 in durango, mexico. The front cover of the book has a color photograph of an attractive specimen of the class iib meteorite which fell at sikhotealin, russia on february 12, 1947. The other deals with meteors and meteorites telling the reader what they are and where they come from. Aug 21, 2018 the material of the iron man may consist of the chinga meteorite that fell to the earth and landed in siberia approximately 15,000 years ago.
Chinga was discovered in tanna tuva, russia in the streambed of the chinga river, in 19. Is often found in eucrites along with anorthite and in small amounts in angrites. These chinga iron meteorite part slices have a been highly polished to give a mirror like surface. Clinoenstatite mgsio 3 a meteoritic pyroxene mineral.
A chinga meteorite in the natural form of a roosterataxite, class ivb, chinga river, tuva, russiaweighing 900 grams, 15. Named after the river in which it was discovered, chinga meteorites are actually an an iron meteorite called ataxite, which due to their high nickel content means that they have a mirrorlike sheen. The study of meteorites provides a unifying theme that links almost every aspect of earth and planetary science with mathematics, physics, chemistry and even biology. The first reports of its discovery were made in 19, but someone found a piece a lot earlier than that, almost a thousand years earlier than that, in fact. The chinga meteorite is one of the rarest types of meteors found to date. Deformational structures in the pultusk meteorite such as cataclastic zones, impact melt clasts, melt veins, and melt pockets are observed and studied. Chinga meaning and origin of the name chinga nameaning.
Gallant further described the history of chinga in a may 1997 article of meteorite magazine. Study of visually different areas in the chinga iron. Sep 27, 2012 buchners team of researchers from germany and austria dated it to a specific event in astronomy history when the chinga meteorite fell in the border region of eastern siberia and mongolia between. With more than 50 new photographs and updated illustrations, new and expanded appendixes, and some fun cosmic humor, rocks from space, second edition, journeys into the last frontier for closeup looks at the latest astronomical. The two items offered, an entire and a pretty little fullslice, stem from the walter zeitschel meteorite collection. Another small information book put out by nininger in a two part series. Chingas are a rare type of iron meteorite known as an ataxite.
Having a high nickel content it is easy to keep and when polished makes a perfect example of what meteorite metal is like when not treated the way ancients would have seen this metal before smelting from ore made iron no longer the gift. The statue could well have been forged with remains gathered from the impact site. A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon. Study of visually different areas in the chinga iron meteorite fragment ab cd fig. Chinga, ungrouped meteorite gallery, information, hunting. Another claim was put forth by a young boy who stated that he had been hit by a small 3 gram stone of the mbale meteorite fall from uganda, and who stood to gain nothing from this assertion. When the original object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and radiate. This elegant specimen takes the natural form of a rooster, the 10th sign of the zodiac.
Chinga as an ataxite lives up to everything which one would want from such a special class of meteorite. Search for specimens in the smithsonian institution collection u. It has been digitized at the university of hawaii as it is still an extraordinarily valuable resource and is no longer in print. Here is a stunning example of the rare ataxite meteorite from turvinskaya, russia. Oct 14, 2012 at the request of it new owner researchers dated it to a specific in the history of astronomy when the chinga meteorite fell in the borders of eastern siberia and mongolia between1020,000 years ago, declaring the icon to be made of a rare ataxite class, the rarest meteorite type that has ever fallen to earth, carved by the pretibetan bon culture in the 11thc. Id love to get some lidar data for the source region. Chinga chinga meteorites for sale the meteorite exchange. However i thought the natural history museum book excelled at using information gleaned from meteorite finds to shed light on the conditions of the solar system that ultimately led to our own existence. An ataxite is a meteorite with no internal structure, such as widmanstatten patterns or neumann lines. The book contains meteorite oxide that is a part of meteorite crater. In meteorites, leading experts from the natural history museum provide a compelling introduction to these mysterious objects.
Measurements of metal particle size are achieved, giving even deeper insight into textural features of meteorite. The material of the iron man may consist of the chinga meteorite that fell to the earth and landed in siberia approximately 15,000 years ago. See more ideas about rocks and minerals, rocks and gems and minerals. Chinga meteorite chinge, chinge river, tuva, russia. Discovered near the chinga river in 19, chinga is an iron meteorite 82. The iron man is a statue that was made from a fragment of the chinga meteorite.
The handbook of iron meteorites was originally published by the university of california press in 1975 for the center for meteorite studies at arizona state university. About exploring meteorite mysteries teachers and scientists designed this book to engage students in inquiry science and to extend science with interdisciplinary connections. Named after the river in which it was discovered, chinga meteorites are actually an an iron meteorite called ataxite, which due to their high nickel content means that they have a. Chinga meteorite naturhistorisches museum nurnberg nuremberg, germany dsc04172. There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Chinga iron, ivc, ataxite ironung in metbull found 19 51 3 30 n. Handbook of iron meteorites evols at university of. Meteorite gallery, photos, information, hunting, research. The geochemical data match those of the chinga meteorite which fell to earth between mongolia and siberia about 15,000 years ago. Handbook of iron meteorites evols at university of hawaii.