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New meteorite strewn field gives clue of largest meteor shower on Earth

Chinese scientists announced Thursday they have looked into three giant meteorite irons to ascertain the world's longest meteorite-strewn field in Altay, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Scientists with the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, said Thursday that the meteorites were all from the same parent asteroid, as their chemical elements are identical.
The earliest dated discovery of the extraterrestrial stones was in 1898, when herdsmen in the Gobi Desert found a 28-tonne silvery stone, which was in the shape of a camel. The Meteoritic Society later named it Armanty, and confirmed it to be the world's fourth-largest meteorite.
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Ownership of meteorite remains controversial

One year and a half later, the discoverers of the meteorite --Hailati Ayisa and Jiaerheng Habudehai, two guides of Kazak nationality -- decided to sue the government. Once filed, it could be the first case about ownership of articles from the space, the Southern Weekly reported. The contractors of the pasture, where the meteorite was found, also claimed its ownership, further complicating things.
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Un masso enorme, che potrebbe ambire ad essere uno dei più grandi meteoriti mai recuperati, è stato trovato in una regione remota e montagnosa nel nord-ovest della Cina. Enorme e dalla forma strana è stato trovato nelle montagne dell'Altai in Cina nella provincia dello Xinjiang Uygur, secondo la rivista Sky and Telescope. All'inizio di Luglio, Baolin Zhang, esperto di meteoriti al Planetario di Pechino, ha guidato un piccolo team fino a 9.500 piedi (2.900 metri) per indagare sulle denunce del presunto meteorite.
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One of the largest meteorites ever recorded has been discovered in the remote Altai mountains that separate China from Mongolia.

For decades, passing Kazakh herdsmen have carved their names on an oddly shaped rock that lay almost 10,000ft up in the mountains and wondered if it was a giant deposit of platinum or silver.
Instead, the object, whose melted surface is dappled with shades of black, ochre and red, could be the third-largest meteorite ever found.
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A massive space rock - one that could rank as one of the largest meteorites ever recovered - has been found in a remote and mountainous region in northwest China, according to news reports.
The huge and oddly-shaped rock was found in the Altai mountains in China's Xinjiang Uygur Province, according to Sky and Telescope magazine. Earlier this month, Baolin Zhang, a meteorite specialist at the Beijing Planetarium, led a small team up a 2,900-meter summit to investigate reports of the supposed meteorite.
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Iron meteorite found in Xinjiang, NW China



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Meteorite found in Xinjiang

Astronomers inspect a big stony-iron meteorite that was found in Altay prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on July 17, 2011. The above-earth part of the rock is 2.2 meters long and 1.25 meters tall, with a width of 1.2 meters (average data). Its weight is estimated at 25 tons.
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A giant meteorite was recently found in Altay prefecture inside the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Experts and fanciers from Beijing and Chinese Taiwan inspected the meteorite and identified it as a stony-iron meteorite. The above-earth part of the giant meteorite is 2.2 meters long and 1.25 meters tall, with a width of 1.2 meters (average data). Its weight is estimated at 25 tons.
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