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Talbachat n'aït Isfoul
Basic information Name: Talbachat n'aït Isfoul
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 1999
Country: Morocco
Mass:help 8 kg
Classification
  history:
NHM Catalogue:  5th Edition  (2000)  LL3
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 85  (2001)  LL3
MetBase:  v. 7.1  (2006)  LL3
Recommended:  LL3    [explanation]

This is 1 of 469 approved meteorites classified as LL3.   [show all]
Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Data from:
  MB85
  Table 2
  Line 30:
State/Prov/County:Morocco
Date:Apr 1999
Latitude:29°59'N
Longitude:5°14'W
Mass (g):8 kg
Pieces:1
Class:LL3
Fayalite (mol%):27.6
Classifier:Ph. Gillet (ENSL) and J.-A. Barrat (UAng)
Type spec mass (g):29
Main mass:anonymous finder
Institutions
   and collections		 ENSL: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex, France (institutional address; updated 27 Feb 2011)
UAng: Université d'Angers, Faculté des Sciences, 2 bd Lavoisier, 49045 Angers Cedex, France (institutional address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 85, MAPS 36, A293-A322 (2001)
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Geography:

Morocco
Coordinates:
     Catalogue of Meteorites:   (29° 59'N, 5° 14'W)
     Recommended::   (29° 59'N, 5° 14'W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 73 approved meteorites from Souss-Massa-Draâ, Morocco (plus 4 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 2012 approved meteorites from Morocco (plus 35 unapproved names) (plus 1 impact crater)
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