Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Ramlat as Sahmah 114

MetSoc Home Publications Contacts

Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 15 Apr 2024
Search for:	Search type:	Search limits:	Display:	Publication:
Names Text Places Classes Years	Contains Starts with Exact Sounds like	NonAntarctic Falls Non-NWAs Has strewnfield		What's new in the last:
Include past classifications in search		Has photo	Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:

Ramlat as Sahmah 114

Basic information

Name: Ramlat as Sahmah 114
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: RaS 114
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2003
Country: Oman
Mass: 142.4 g

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:	MB 93	(2008)	H5
Recommended:			H5 [explanation]

This is 1 of 11567 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)

Comments:

Approved 14 Jan 2008

Data from:
  MB93
  Table 8
  Line 123:

Origin or pseudonym:	Oman, desert plain
Date:	20-Jan-2003
Latitude:	20°34.109'N
Longitude:	56°06.130'E
Mass (g):	142.4
Pieces:	1
Class:	H5
Shock stage:	S1/2
Weathering grade:	W3
Fayalite (mol%):	18.9
Ferrosilite (mol%):	16.9
Magnetic suscept.:	1.4
Classifier:	E. Gnos, MHNGE, B. Hofmann, NMBE and A. Al-Kathiri, UBE/MCI; analysts E. Gnos, MHNGE and A. Al-Kathiri UBE/MCI
Type spec mass (g):	142.4
Type spec location:	NMBE
Finder:	B. Hofmann, NMBE, A. Al-Kathiri, UBE/MCI, U. Krähenbühl, and M. Eggimann
Comments:	Wo1.4; cpx; An12.3

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)

Catalogs:

References:

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

Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:

Geography:

Oman

Coordinates:
Recommended::	(20° 34' 7"N, 56° 6' 8"E)

Statistics:
This is 1 of 1753 approved meteorites from Al Wusta, Oman (plus 81 unapproved names)
This is 1 of 3998 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 441 unapproved names)

Proximity search:

Also see:

This lists the most popular meteorites among people who looked up this meteorite.

Revision
history:

This lists important revisions made to data for this record.

Direct link to this page