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Al Haddar 001
Basic information Name: Al Haddar 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2011
Country: Saudi Arabia
Mass:help 365 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12780 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 10 Jan 2014
Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
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State/Prov/County:Ar Riyad
Origin or pseudonym:Desert plain
Date:12 May 2011
Latitude:21°37.596'N
Longitude:45°38.807'E
Mass (g):365.13
Pieces:1
Class:L6
Shock stage:S4
Weathering grade:W3
Fayalite (mol%):25.4
Classifier:B. Hofmann, E. Gnos, E. Greber
Type spec mass (g):43.89
Type spec location:MHNGE
Main mass:SGS
Finder:Edwin Gnos, Albert Matter, Khalid al Wagdani, Ayman Majoub, Abdulaziz Solami, Siddiq Habibullah
Comments:Submitted by Beda Hofmann
Institutions
   and collections		 MHNGE: Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Route de Malagnou 1, CH-1211 Genève 6 , Switzerland (institutional address; updated 27 Oct 2011)
SGS: Saudi Geological Survey, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (institutional address; updated 11 Feb 2010)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 103, MAPS 52, 1014, May 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12888/full
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Geography:

Saudi Arabia
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (21° 37' 36"N, 45° 38' 48"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
     This is 1 of 113 approved meteorites from Saudi Arabia (plus 4 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters)
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