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Hajmah (b) | |||||||||||||||||
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Basic information | Name: Hajmah (b) This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1958 Country: Oman Mass: 891 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 12668 approved meteorites (plus 8 unapproved names) classified as L6. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 57:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE HAJMAH (b), OMAN, STONY METEORITE Name: HAJMAH (b) Place of find: Hajmah area, Jiddat al Harasis, Oman. 19°55'N., 56-15'E., approximately. Date of find: Before 1958. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa25.5, orthopyroxene Fs21.5. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 890.6 g. Circumstances of find: Found during oil prospecting in the Hajmah area before 1958. Texturally distinct from Hajmah (c) and compositionally distinct from Hajmah (a). Source: J.N. Carreck, Geology Department, Queen Mary College, Mile End Road, London El. R. Hutchison, A.L. Graham and A.W.R. Bevan, Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), London SW 7. Note: The meteorite reported as Hajmah, a ureilite (Meteoritical Bulletin No. 55), should now be named Hajmah (a). | ||||||||||||||||
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References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 57, Meteoritics 15, 93-104 (1980)
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Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 1759 approved meteorites from Al Wusta, Oman (plus 75 unapproved names) This is 1 of 4006 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 433 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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