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Hammadah al Hamra 189

Basic information

Name: Hammadah al Hamra 189
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: HaH 189
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1996
Country: Libya
Mass: 57 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 82	(1998)	L5
NHM Catalogue:	5th Edition	(2000)	L5
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	L5
Recommended:			L5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 8891 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L5. [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Data from:
  MB82
  Table 5
  Line 174:

Date:	1996
Latitude:	28°31.99'N
Longitude:	12°58.89'E
Mass (g):	57
Pieces:	1
Class:	L5
Shock stage:	S3
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	25.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):	21.5
Classifier:	Analyses by D. Weber, K. Pollok, A. Jäckel, L. Niemann and T. Grund, and classifications by D. Weber and A. Bischoff (Mün),
Type spec location:	Mün
Main mass:	anonymous finder or at MNB

Institutions
and collections

MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Grund: H. Grundmann, Berlin, Germany (private address)
Mün: Institut für Planetologie, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany (institutional address; updated 23 Jan 2012)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 82, MAPS 33, A221-A240 (1998)

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Geography:

Libya

Coordinates:
Catalogue of Meteorites:	(28° 32'N, 12° 59'E)
Recommended::	(28° 31' 59"N, 12° 58' 53"E)

Note: the NHM and MetBase coordinates are 0.2 km apart

Statistics:
This is 1 of 161 approved meteorites from Ash Shati', Libya
This is 1 of 1553 approved meteorites from Libya (plus 24 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters)

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