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Jiddat al Harasis 709
Basic information Name: Jiddat al Harasis 709
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: JaH 709
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: Oman
Mass:help 92 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 101  (2012)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12727 approved meteorites (plus 11 unapproved names) classified as L6.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 19 Oct 2012
Data from:
  MB101
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Zufar
Origin or pseudonym:Desert plain
Date:2011 Feb 03
Latitude:19°23.182'N
Longitude:55°19.151'E
Mass (g):92.0
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):24.3
Ferrosilite (mol%):19.9
Wollastonite (mol%):1.7
Classifier:B. Hofmann NMBE, E. Gnos MHNGE, N. Federspiel, Bern
Type spec mass (g):92.0
Type spec location:NMBE
Main mass:NMBE
Finder:D. Abplanalp, U. Eggenberger, N. Federspiel, E. Gnos, B. Hofmann
Comments:oriented stone; submitted by Beda Hofmann
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)
Bern: University of Bern, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland (institutional address)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 101, MAPS 50, 1661, September 2015
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Geography:

Oman
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (19° 23' 11"N, 55° 19' 9"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)
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