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Grein 002
Basic information Name: Grein 002
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1997
Country: Niger
Mass:help 609 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 82  (1998)  EL4-5
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  EL4-5
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  EL4/5
Recommended:  EL4/5    [explanation]

This is the only approved meteorite classified as EL4/5.
Search for other: EL chondrites, Enstatite chondrites, Enstatite chondrites (type 4-7), and Enstatite-rich meteorites
Data from:
  MB82
  Table 6
  Line 2:
Date:3 Mar 1997
Latitude:20°42.87' N
Longitude:11°6.94' E
Mass (g):608.9
Pieces:1
Class:EL4-5
Weathering grade:W0
Classifier:P. Scherer, H. Schulze, F. Wlotzka and J. Zipfel (MPI)
Type spec location:Hamb and MPI
Main mass:Guhr
Plots: O isotopes:  
Institutions
   and collections
Hamb: Museum der Natur Hamburg - Mineralogie, Grindelallee 48, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 18 Jan 2024)
Guhr: Andreas Guhr, Jungfernstieg 8, 20354 Hamburg, Germany (private address)
MPI: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)
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K.-C. Lyncker   
Geography:

Niger
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (20° 43'N, 11° 7'E)
     Recommended::   (20° 42' 52"N, 11° 6' 56"E)
Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.3 km apart

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 54 approved meteorites from Agadez, Niger
     This is 1 of 119 approved meteorites from Niger (plus 4 unapproved names)
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