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COMPLETE BASSIKOUNOU METEORITE
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COMPLETE BASSIKOUNOU METEORITE

H5Bassikounou, Hodh Ech Chargui, Mauritania (15°47' N, 5°54' W)

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COMPLETE BASSIKOUNOU METEORITE
H5
Bassikounou, Hodh Ech Chargui, Mauritania (15°47' N, 5°54' W)
Fresh chocolate-colored triangular specimen covered in fusion crust.
71 x 57 x 52mm (2¾ x 2¼ x 2in.)
242g
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拍品專文

In the southeast corner of Mauritania, extremely close to the Malian border, a bright fireball was observed at 1 P.M. on October 16, 2006. More than 20 stones fell from the sky and formed a strewn field that extended about 8 kilometers across the landscape. The rock from which this meteorite originated was shocked on its parent asteroid; metal and sulfide grains melted and metallic copper grains formed. Before being ejected into an Earth-intersecting orbit, the rock was buried amidst hot impact-generated debris which moderately recrystallized most of the chondrules.

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