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| Basic information | Name: Bou Hadid This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Algeria Mass:  374 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 54 approved meteorites classified as L. [show all] Search for other: L chondrites, Ordinary chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 50:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE BOU HADID, ALGERIA, STONY METEORITE Name: BOU HADID Synonym: Moungar Bou Hadid Place of find: 300 m southeast from the Compagnie des Petroles d'Algerie (C.P.A.) oil drilling site Bou Hadid Nr. 3 (Bd3), 8 km northwest of Moungar Bou Hadid (headland of Bou Hadid), 62 km northeast (55°) of the city of Adrar (Touat Valley), Western Tademait Plateau, Algerian Sahara, Algeria. 28° 18'45"N, 0° 14'E. Date of find: February 3, 1969 Class and type: Stony. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 374 g Circumstances of find: One fragment, apparently of a larger mass, was found by J. Ph. Lefranc, geologist with the Centre de Recherches sur les Zones Arides, C.N.R.S., Paris, collaborator with the Algerian Geological Survey. It was on Quaternary gravel overlying the Cretaceous Plateau. A little oxidized, the stone seems to be old. Source: Paul Pellas, Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 50, Meteoritics 6, 111-124 (1971)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 201 approved meteorites from Adrar, Algeria (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 1356 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 30 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Moungar Bou Hadid (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||