FALL OF NADIABONDI METEORITE

Name: NADIABONDI

The place of fall or discovery: 5 km west of village of Nadiabondi, Diapaga Province, French East Sudan, φ = 12°N; λ = 1°E of Greenwich.

Date of fall or discovery:  fall, July 27, 1956, at approximately 19 h 30 m (L. T.)

Class and type: stony; chondrite.

The Number of individual specimens: 1; tetrahedral shape.

Total weight:  3665 gr; including fragments kept for study.

The circumstances of fall or discovery:  a bolide was observed which lit up the area for 5-6 seconds, over a radius of 25-40 km. The direction of the bolide's flight was from northeast to west (relative to Diapaga). Three blows were heard, and then a noise similar to that of an aircraft and, finally, the blow of the meteorite as it struck the ground. The meteorite was found on November 20, 5 km west of the village of Nadiabondi.  It entered the soil to a depth of 25 cm. The meteorite has been placed in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Source: Bulletin des Meteorites Laboratoire de Minéralogie du Muséum National