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| Basic information | Name: Tillaberi This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1970 Country: Niger Mass:  3 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 12583 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 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE TILLABERI, NIGER, STONY METEORITE Name: TILLABERI Place of fall: Close to the village of Mari, 40 km NE of Tillaberi, Republic of Niger. 14° 15'N., 01° 32'E. Date of fall: April 1970, at the end of the month, in the morning. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L6). Olivine Fa25. Number of individual specimens: 2 Total weight: 3 kg, approximately. Circumstances of fall: Three fireballs were seen, associated with detonations. Only two stones were recovered. Source: M. Christophe Michel-Levy and J.-M. Malezieux, 1976. La meteorite de Tillaberi. Meteoritics 11, 217-224. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Niamey, Niger This is 1 of 117 approved meteorites from Niger (plus 4 unapproved names) | ||||||||||||||||
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