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Hammadah al Hamra 334

Basic information

Name: Hammadah al Hamra 334
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: HaH 334
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Libya
Mass: 662 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 89	(2005)	H5
MetBase:	v. 7.1	(2006)	H5
Recommended:			H5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 11568 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Data from:
  MB89
  Table 1
  Line 34:

Date:	19 Mar 2003
Latitude:	30°02.073'N
Longitude:	13°07.810'E
Mass (g):	662
Pieces:	1
Class:	H5
Shock stage:	S2
Weathering grade:	W2
Fayalite (mol%):	19
Ferrosilite (mol%):	17
Classifier:	A. Sokol, A. Bischoff, Mün
Type spec mass (g):	76.4
Type spec location:	Ham, Mün and Mainz
Main mass:	Industrial Research Center (IRC) Tripoli

Institutions
and collections

Ham: Museum der Natur Hamburg - Mineralogie, Grindelallee 48, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 18 Jan 2024)
IRC: Industrial Research Center, Tripoli, Libya (institutional address)
Mainz: Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Postfach 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; Website (institutional address; updated 7 Nov 2015)
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. 89, MAPS 40, A201-A263 (2005)

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Geography:

Libya

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(30° 2' 4"N, 13° 7' 49"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 214 approved meteorites from Gharyan, Libya (plus 16 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 1553 approved meteorites from Libya (plus 24 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters)

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