[4] In 2000, pieces of the meteorite were included in an art installation for The BullRing Shopping Centre in Birmingham, England.

[1] The fall of the meteorite might have been observed in 1516, but it is difficult to assess if this event is connected with the pieces that were retrieved in 1958.

[2] The meteorite burst during passage through the atmosphere and the pieces were scattered in a strewn field 28 kilometres (17 mi) long and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) wide near the city of Nantan, Nandan County, Guangxi (China).

The fragments were not retrieved until the 1950s when they were gathered for smelting to make metal for the growing industrialization of China.

Most fragments show strong signs of weathering, due to the long time it took to retrieve them.