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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1478324 Australia 07/22/2011 03:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Massive Meteorite Found in China As the meteorite specialist for the Beijing Planetarium, Baolin Zhang gets all kinds of unusual reports — like the dramatic (but ultimately specious) tale of a peasant woman who recently found a blue-ice "meteorite" in her yard. Map of China's Xinjiang region Although the exact location of the newly found meteorite has not been announced, its general location is the mountainous border region of China's Xinjiang Uyghur province. Wikimedia Commons But credible reports of a massive, oddly shaped and colored stone in the remote Altai Mountains of Xinjiang Uygur province (in northwest China) got his attention. So earlier this month he assembled a small team to check it out firsthand. The trek was cold and arduous, involving a rented jeep, borrowed horses, and even a camel to cross rugged terrain and rivers still swollen with snowmelt. |
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tinygreen User ID: 427545 United States 07/22/2011 04:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | nice!! it's amazing that it isn't totally underground as big as it is! could you imagine seeing something like that fall! would it even be a survivable event? 'it is not the duty of the police to protect you. their job is to protect THE CORPORATION and arrest code breakers.' (sapp vs tallahassee) |