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Ramlat al Wahibah 010

Basic information

Name: Ramlat al Wahibah 010
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: RaW 010
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2006
Country: Oman
Mass: 23.2 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 93	(2008)	H4
Recommended:			H4 [explanation]

This is 1 of 6493 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H4. [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)

Comments:

Approved 14 Jan 2008

Data from:
  MB93
  Table 8
  Line 89:

Origin or pseudonym:	Oman, desert plain
Date:	7-Mar-2006
Latitude:	21°08.298'N
Longitude:	58°21.815'E
Mass (g):	23.2
Pieces:	2
Class:	H4
Shock stage:	S2-3
Weathering grade:	W4
Fayalite (mol%):	17.5
Ferrosilite (mol%):	16.4
Wollastonite (mol%):	1.3
Classifier:	E. Gnos, MHNGE and B. Hofmann, NMBE.
Type spec mass (g):	23.2
Type spec location:	NMBE
Finder:	M. Eggimann, E. Gnos, MHNGE; B. Hofmann, NMBE, L. Huber, M. Tschudin, A. Al-Kathiri; UBE/MCI

Institutions
and collections

NMBE: Natural History Museum Bern Bernastrasse 15 CH-3005 Bern Switzerland, Switzerland; Website (institutional address; updated 2 Mar 2012)
MHNGE: Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou 1, CH-1211 Genève 6 , Switzerland (institutional address; updated 27 Oct 2011)
UBE: University of Bern, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland (institutional address)

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References:

Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 93, MAPS 43, 571-632 (2008)

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Geography:

Oman

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(21° 8' 18"N, 58° 21' 49"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 46 approved meteorites from Ash Sharqiyah, Oman
This is 1 of 3998 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 441 unapproved names)

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