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Jiddat al Harasis 801
Basic information Name: Jiddat al Harasis 801
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: JaH 801
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: Oman
Mass:help 376 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 102  (2013)  H3-6
Recommended:  H3-6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 80 approved meteorites classified as H3-6.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 3), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 3)
Comments: Approved 12 Aug 2013
Data from:
  MB102
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Al Wusta
Origin or pseudonym:Desert plain
Date:2011 Jan 25
Latitude:19°44.555'N
Longitude:55°35.250'E
Mass (g):376.2
Pieces:9
Class:H3-6
Shock stage:S1
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):17.9±8.2 (7.1-41.5, n=37)
Ferrosilite (mol%):15.8±0.8 (15.3-16.2, n=8)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.7±0.95 (0.8-3.4, n=8)
Classifier:B. Hofmann NMBE, E. Gnos MHNGE, N. Greber Bern
Type spec mass (g):376.2
Type spec location:NMBE
Main mass:NMBE
Finder:D. Abplanalp, U. Eggenberger, N. Federspiel, E. Gnos, B. Hofmann
Comments:Breccia consisting of clasts ranging in petrographic grade from 3 to 6. Mean chondrule size ~0.4 mm. Fa 17.6±0.5 (n=17) in equilibrated clast. Mean chondrule size ~0.4 mm.; 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. 102, MAPS 50, 1662, September 2015
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Geography:

Oman
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (19° 44' 33"N, 55° 35' 15"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)
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