No pattern has been found for this yet, and meteorites often appear not only in Jilin, but also in other parts of our country. However, the location of this meteorite landing is currently random. On the afternoon of March 8, 1976, an atmospheric entry event occurred in the northern suburbs of Jilin City, my country, known as the Jilin Meteorite Rain.
At that time, quite a few people witnessed a large fireball falling from the sky, then split into many small fireballs, and then many meteorites fell to the ground. When the meteorite rain fell, no one, animal or thing was harmed, which is indeed rare in the world's meteorite rain records. Due to the impact of high-temperature and high-pressure airflow, meteorites continued to crack, and a main explosion occurred at an altitude of 19 kilometers. Large and small meteorite fragments scattered down, forming the Jilin meteorite rain.
Jilin meteorites are rare in the world in terms of their quantity, weight, scattering range and technological content. It has been determined that the parent body of the Jilin meteorite shower was originally a planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter in the solar system, and is about 4.6 billion years old. About 8 million years ago, in a violent celestial impact event, the Jilin meteorite was impacted from a depth of about 20 kilometers from the surface of the parent body, changing its orbit and forming a new elliptical orbit.
The meteorite rain in Jilin fell within a radius of 500 square kilometers near Jilin City, Yongji County and the suburbs of Jiaohe City. This is the largest meteorite shower in the world. At that time, the government collected 138 meteorite specimens, more than 3,000 fragments, and a total weight of 2,616 kilograms. The largest meteorite, the Jilin No. 1 meteorite, impacted the ground, causing a mushroom cloud of smoke and dust, and penetrated the permafrost, forming a 6.5-meter-deep and 2-meter-diameter crater.