Iron nickel meteorite from China

It had been sailing around the universe for oh about 4.5 billion years, when it ran smack into China!  Here's your chance to own a piece of the first historically-recorded meteorite fall, 500 years ago!!!

This auction is for a beautiful specimen of Meteorite from the 1516 fall in Nantan, or as it is now called Nan Dan, Gaung Xi, China. 

A BIG CHUNK OF Nan Dan METEORITE SPECIMEN FROM CHINA, WEIGHING 39.0 grams AND IS 45mm LONG.  This is a nice specimen.  GREAT FORMATION AND CHARACTER.

THIS SPECIMEN IS BELIEVED TO BE 4.5 BILLION YEARS OLD!!!!  It is 92% iron.

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Shipping on this is by First Class Mail for $4.00 and that includes tracking and delivery confirmation to the US.  I will combine multiple meteorite purchases and ship together.   Add $1.50 for S/H if you wish to combine this with any of my other meteorite listings.

Shipping to Canada is $5.00 and International shipping is only $6.00.

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This one was found in NAN DAN, QUANXI PROVINCE, CHINA. The Chinese considered meteorites to be sacred stones from heaven. Lihu and Yaozhai towns, Nandan County, Guangxi, China. 25 degrees 6’ N, 107 degree 42’E Nantan iron meteorites represent one of the rare witnessed iron meteorite falls in the world.

The fall in 1516 was recorded vividly -- "During summertime in May of Jiajing 11th year, stars fell from the northwest direction, five to six fold long, waving like snakes and dragons. They were as bright as lightning and disappeared in seconds." So far almost all the iron meteorites found in the world are discovered meteorites, that is, no one witnessed any fall. The Nantan is a exception. The Chinese people actually saw the star falling nearly 500 years ago. No one paid attention to the historical record about the fallen stars at Nandan until 1958, when China needed a lot of steel to push the country "Great Leap Forward".

During this period, everyone was told to look for iron ore. Even cooking pots were melted in back yards to produce steel. Some farmers at Nandan, mainly Yao minority, were lucky enough to keep their kitchen tools by finding some heavy Iron-rich rocks. Unfortunately, the "iron ore" would not melt at the backyard steel factory, which puzzled the farmers. They reported to the government and scientists. Researchers arrived and proved the "iron ore" to be iron meteorites. Detailed mapping showed that the Nantan meteorites were distributed in an area of 27 - 28 Km long and 8 Km wide, overlying Permian limestone and surface soils. The occurrence of northwestern elongated zone concurs with the historical description of falling direction.

Nantan meteorites have different shapes: spherical, triangle, flat-iron shaped, elliptical, semi-sheered, tongue-shaped, irregular, and so on.