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Chondrite
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12.1 grams
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Gold Basin
Found on November 24, 1995 in northern Arizona by University
of Arizona Professor Jim Kriegh while prospecting for gold. Gold Basin
is classified as an Ordinary chondrite type L4. Total Known Weight is
> 61 kg. A very old meteorite fall which shows tremendous amounts
of weathering.
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Bensour specimens
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Bensour
Fell 2/10/2002 approximately 4:00 pm local time on the
eastern border of Morocco and Algeria. Generally most Bensour meteorites
show's the great black fusion crest with a bright gray inner matrix.
The total known weight is approximately 45 kilos. Bensour is classified
as an Ordinary Chondrite type LL6.
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10.6 grams
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Gao-Guenie
Fell on March 5, 1960 at 5:00 pm local time in the Upper
Volta area of Africa now called Burkina Faso. This fall produced a very
large strewn field. The reports of two falls a month apart in the same
region which was later dismissed has led to an indeterminate total known
weight (TKW). When the specimens of the two falls where compare they
where an exact match. It has been suggested that the TKW could be as
high as 200 kilos. GAO is classified as an Ordinary Chondrite type H5.
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13.2 grams
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NWA 1794
Purchased in Rhabt Safsaf, Morocco in October 2002. This
specimen was one stone weighing 398 grams, and classified as an Ordinary
Chondrite type LL5 .
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Oum Dreyga
Fell on October 16, 2003 at 2:00 am near the Gour Lafkah
Mountains in Morocco. Approximately 17 kilos of stones where recovered
by Moroccan solders, and later sold to dealers in northern Morocco.
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6.0 grams
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Tsarev
Found in 1968 near the Town of Tsarev in the Volgograd
region of Russia. It is thought to be from the witness fall of December
6,1922. The total known weight that was recovered is 1,225 kilos. Making
this fall the third largest stone meteorite fall. Classified as an Ordinary
Chondrite type L5 with a black matrix that is heavily shocked interior
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Achondrite
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3.4 grams
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Tatahouine
On June 27, 1931 at 1:30 am in Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia
a fireball explode over the Tunisia desert. Hundreds of small green
stones littered the desert floor with a total known weight of approximately
15 kilos. The meteorite is thought to have exploded high in the atmosphere
do to the lack of a fusion crest. These green meteorites are classified
as an Achondrite type Diogenite.
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NWA 2964
Purchased in 2005 in Erfoud, Morocco. The total known
weight is only 207grams. The classification is an Achondrite type Ureilite
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Green cube measures
1 centimeter
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