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Name
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Structure Class
Ordinary chondrites
Chemical Class
L5
Country
Burkina Faso
Year found
2003
Mass
4.44 kg
[Museum Collection]
(1) 4.75g


History: In November of 2003, Michael Farmer traveled to Burkina Faso to purchase meteorites. During his visit he heard of a recent fall near the town of Bilanga. Mr. Farmer bought ~1.6 kg of the new fall in Bilanga, then traveled to the fall site ~40 km NNW to the villages of Batiawo and Lampiaiyre (several km SE of Oudangou). Here he purchased the remaining 2.84 kg of stones. According to the villagers of Batiawo and Lampyaire, the stones fell within the villages and surrounding bushland, during the afternoon in early November 2003, though the exact date could not be agreed upon. Several of the stones from Batiawo had been broken into pieces by villagers. The largest stone (broken into three pieces) is 2031 g. Physical characteristics: All stones are well-rounded showing broad, poorly developed regmaglypts, and covered by a velvety fusion crust up to 0.5 mm thick. The few reddish patches on the exterior are from the local soil. Interior is primarily white, with heterogeneous distribution of gray clasts. Clasts to 5 cm, rounded, some with scalloped margins. A few large metal-troilite nodules, to 1.5 cm. Sparse shock veining. None of the stones show signs of rusting. Petrography: (L. Garvie, ASU) Matrix largely recrystallized with disseminated plagioclase grains <50 μm, rarely to 200 μm. Scattering of distinct chondrules, some to 1 mm, including RP, PO, and BO. Localized melting forming silicate-metal-sulfide pods. Two 1 cm2 sections show ~10 Cu grains each. Cu grains (
Name
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Structure Class
Ordinary chondrites
Chemical Class
L6
Country
Russia
Year found
1983
Mass
1830 g
[Museum Collection]
(1) 15.00g


Ozernoe division, Zaural'skij state farm, A1'menevo district, Kurgan region, USSR Found August 1983 Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Two separate masses with a total weight of 3.66 kg were found in a pasture in the Ozernoe district, USSR by N. L. Khismatullin. The second mass was found in 1985. 1.1 kg USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow. (R. L. Khotinok, Meteoritika, 1986, 45, p. 108)
Name
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Structure Class
Ordinary chondrites
Chemical Class
L4/5
Country
Chile
Year found
1986
Mass
10 kg
[Museum Collection]
(1) 40.44g


DISCOVERY OF THE PAMPA (b), CHILE, STONY METEORITE Name: PAMPA (b) Place of find: About 10 km N. of Pampa, between Antofagasta and Mejillones, Antofagasta, Chile. 23°12'S., 70°26'W Date of find: March 2, 1986 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L5). Olivine Fa25. Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 10 kg, approximately Circumstances of find: Found by a Chilean prospector. Source: W. Zeitschel, PO. Box 2340, Hanau, West Germany; A.L. Graham, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, U.K. Note: Petrographically distinct from Pampa (a); the (a) and (b) stones have different exposure ages, L. Schultz and H. Weber, priv comm. 1987.