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The Suizhou meteorite shower occurred on April 15, 1986 in Dayanpo, Suizhou Prefecture, Hubei Province at 6:50pm, a witnessed fall. Suizhou is most widely known for containing a mineral never before seen in nature. Found in the thin veins of shock melt which run through <a href="https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=suizhou&sfor=names&ants=&nwas=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&strewn=&snew=0&pnt=Normal table&code=23738" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Suizhou</a>— the result of a cataclysmic collision in outer space— is Tuite, a new polymorph of the mineral Whitlockite. Its creamy matrix vividly contrasts with broad surfaces of black fusion crust - the result of its fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere.

Classification: L6 – An ordinary chondrite from the L (Low Iron) group that is petrologic type 6 (Designates chondrites that have been metamorphosed under conditions sufficient to homogenize all mineral compositions, convert all low-Ca pyroxene to orthopyroxene, coarsen secondary phases such as feldspar to sizes ≥50 µm, and obliterate many chondrule outlines).

It measures 4 x 3.5 x 1.75 inches (98 x 87 x 43 mm) and weighs 0.75 pounds (353.57 grams).
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Author Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA

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