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| Basic information | Name: Umm Ruaba This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1966 Country: Sudan Mass:  1700 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 8890 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 40:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF UMM RUABA STONY METEORITE, SUDAN Name: UMM RUABA. The place of fall or discovery: Near the villages of Magrour and Umm Hemeima, some 90 km to the north of the town of Umm Ruaba, Western Sudan; φ = 13°28' N, λ = 31°13' E. Date of fall or discovery: FALL, December 27, 1966, between 13 and 14 hrs. Class and type: STONY. Number of individual specimens: 2. Total weight: 1.700 kg. Circumstances of the fall or discovery: A thundering sound was heard for about 10 minutes followed by the fall of bolide. A whole individual specimen weighing 1.4 kg. was turned over to the Geological Survey of Sudan. There is a fragment weighing about 300 gr., which was obviously broken from another individual specimen. Source: Report of Dr. A. Widatalla (Khartoum, Sudan) in a letter 11.5 1967. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 40, Moscow (1967) reprinted Met. 5, 85-109 (1970)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Kurdufan, Sudan This is 1 of 12 approved meteorites from Sudan (plus 1 unapproved name) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Magrour (In NHM Cat) Umm Hemeima (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||