header
  MetSoc Home            Publications            Contacts  
Search the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Last update: 24 Apr 2024
Search for: Search type: Search limits: Display: Publication:
Names
Text help
Places
Classes
Years
Contains
Starts with
Exact
Sounds like
NonAntarctic
Falls  Non-NWAs
What's new
  in the last:
Limit to approved meteorite names
Search text:
 
Shişr 159
Basic information Name: Shişr 159
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: Oman
Mass:help 113.8 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 95  (2009)  H5
Recommended:  H~5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 192 approved meteorites classified as H~5.   [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:
  MB95
  Table 7
  Line 136:
State/Prov/County:Zufar, Oman
Origin or pseudonym:Desert plain
Date:5-Feb-07
Latitude:18°15.546'N
Longitude:53°59.523'E
Mass (g):113.8
Pieces:3
Class:H5
Weathering grade:W2
Magnetic suscept.:4.98
Classifier:R. Bartoschewitz, Bart
Type spec mass (g):20
Type spec location:Kiel
Main mass:Bart
Institutions
   and collections
Kiel: Geologisches und Mineralogisches Museum, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Mayn-Str. 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany, Germany (institutional address; updated 13 Sep 2013)
Bart: Bartoschewitz Meteorite Laboratory, Weiland 37, D-38518 Gifhorn, Germany; Website (private address; updated 30 Nov 2019)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 95, MAPS 44, 429-462 (2009)
Find references in NASA ADS:
Find references in Google Scholar:
Geography:

Oman
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (18° 15' 33"N, 53° 59' 31"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 2167 approved meteorites from Zufar, Oman (plus 26 unapproved names)
     This is 1 of 3998 approved meteorites from Oman (plus 441 unapproved names)
Proximity search:
Find nearby meteorites: enter search radius (km):
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