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Aba Panu

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L3

Country

Year found

2018

Mass

160 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 128g   (2) 201.5g   (3) 170.8g   (4) 153.3g

(5) 113.6g   (6) 80.9g   (7) 28.0g   (8) 27.9g

(9) 8.1g   (10) 7.3g   (11) 6.6g   (12) 6.6g

(13) 6.5g   (14) 6.2g   (15) 5.1g

History: On the afternoon of 19 April 2018, a large fireball detonated over the Nigerian state of Oyo. This fireball was recorded by NASAs Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) as event 2018-04-19 14:02:27. The meteoroid entered at 20.9 km/s and detonated at an altitude of 30 km at 7.5’N, 3.6’E releasing a calculated total impact energy of 0.23 kt. Many stones fell between the villages of Ipapo (8°7’50.84"N, 3°30’34.58"E) and Tede to the north (8°33’21.49"N, 3°26’46.31"E). Stone were collected at multiple locations. The meteorite is named for the village of Aba Panu near the center of the strewn-field: multiple kg-sized stones were found in and around this village. Current total known weight is near 160 kg. Physical characteristics: The stones are hard, range from 30 g to near 40 kg, rounded with broad poorly developed regmaglypts, and largely lacking fusion crust. Fusion crust is occasionally preserved within the shallow regmaglypts. Most stones are greyish green and show areas of rounded to angular light-colored clasts. Largest clast (5 × 2 cm) is angular, fine-grained, and achondritic. Observations from multiple slices show that clasts constitute roughly

Acfer 019

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L6

Country

Year found

1989

Mass

581 g

[Museum Collection]

(1) 24.1g

This is 1 of 12627 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. Search for specimens in the Smithsonian Institution collection (U.S.): Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 69, Meteoritics 25, 237-239 (1990)

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L6

Country

Year found

1976 or 1977

Mass

407 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 0.39g

This is 1 of 12627 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. Search for specimens in the Smithsonian Institution collection (U.S.): Search for this meteorite in the NIPR database (Japan): Search for this meteorite in the NASA/JSC database (U.S.): Published in Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 1(3) (1978), JSC, Houston Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979) Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 76, Meteoritics 29, 100-143 (1994)

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Bayin Gobi 001

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L5

Country

Year found

2015

Mass

35 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 8.6g

History: On May 1, 2015, Xueming Tang, a Chinese amatuer, and his companions found this sample in the Bayin Gobi desert. He then sent a 20 g sample, cut from the main rock, to GUT for classification and description. The finder retained the main mass. Physical characteristics: Total mass: 35 kg (1 piece), no fusion crust, black-brown surface, smoky-gray colored interior. Petrography: The meteorite consists mainly of a medium-grained granular aggregate of olivine, low-Ca pyroxene and feldspar, with minor amounts of Fe-Ni alloy and troilite. The chondrules are moderately abundant and are readily defined. Geochemistry: Minerals are uniform. Olivine: Fa=26.1±0.7 (n=12); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs=21.9±0.3Wo=1.6±0.3 (n=11). Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L5); S2; W1. Specimens: About 20 g sample and one thin sections are deposited in GUT.

Bechar 001

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L6

Country

Year found

1998

Mass

39 kg

This is 1 of 12396 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. Search for this meteorite in the Natural History Museum collection (U.K.): Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 83, MAPS 34, A169-A186 (1999)

[Museum Collection]

(1) 3.35g

Benenitra

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L6

Country

Year found

2018

Mass

20 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 48.21g

History: Reports of a meteor that detonated in a loud explosion, and stones falling from the sky into the town of Benenitra (pop. ~30,000) on the evening of July 27, 2018, were received by a visiting geologist, Timothy Marais, on July 30, 2018. He was shown photographs and several small fragments, two of which he purchased, weighing 99 and 14 g. Roger Gibson and Lewis Ashwal in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand confirmed a meteorite origin for these specimens using petrographic analysis and EMPA. Confirmation of the date and time of the fall was obtained independently when an upper atmosphere infrasound event was identified on a bearing south-southwest of the CTBTO station IS33 near Antananarivo, Madagascar, at 17h16 GMT on July 27 by Dr. Andry Ramanantsoa (Laboratory of Seismology and Infrasound, University of Antananrivo). A weak ground tremor at approximately 17h17 GMT was identified in the data from the seismograph at the Sakaraha (SKRH) station approximately 80 km northwest of Benenitra by Dr Ranto Raveloson (Wits), and was interpreted to be related to the airburst. Magnetic susceptibility measurements were performed by Prof. Susan Webb (Wits). Physical characteristics: Two broken fragments containing small remnants of bluish-black to brown-black fusion crust and weighing 14 g and 82 g (after thin sectioning) consist of a light-gray matrix with disseminated metal (<1 mm) and some visible chondrules (<5 mm). The edge of the larger fragment, which contains a thin (

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L6

Country

Year found

2001

Mass

19 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 77.0g  (2) 14.51g

This is 1 of 12549 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. Search for this meteorite in the Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide database (Siena, Italy): Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 87, MAPS 38, A189-A248 (2003)

Beni M'hira

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

    L/LL4

Country

Year found

1899

Mass

330 kg

[Museum Collection]

(1) 15.5g

This is 1 of 22 approved meteorites classified as L/LL4. Search for specimens in the Smithsonian Institution collection (U.S.): Search for this meteorite in the Natural History Museum collection (U.K.):

Bjurböle
Catalina 010

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L5

Country

Year found

2010

Mass

329 g

[Museum Collection]

(1) 3.6g

This is 1 of 8842 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015

Catalina 010

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L5

Country

Year found

2010

Mass

329 g

[Museum Collection]

(1) 3.6g

This is 1 of 8842 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015

Catalina 324

Name

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Structure Class

Ordinary chondrites

Chemical Class

L5

Country

Year found

2017

Mass

695 g

[Museum Collection]

(1) 3.9g

This is 1 of 8842 approved meteorites (plus 4 unapproved names) classified as L5. Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 108 (2020) Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 55, 1146-1150