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Ksar Tarcine 002
Basic information Name: Ksar Tarcine 002
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: KT 002
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2012
Country: Tunisia
Mass:help 8.2 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 103  (2014)  H5
Recommended:  H5    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12021 approved meteorites (plus 23 unapproved names) classified as H5.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 1 Feb 2014
Data from:
  MB103
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Madaniyin
Origin or pseudonym:Deflation surface
Date:Oct 2012
Latitude:33°13'41.90"N
Longitude:9°55'37.20"E
Mass (g):8.2
Pieces:1
Class:H5
Weathering grade:W4
Fayalite (mol%):18.9±0.1
Ferrosilite (mol%):17.0±0.2
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4±0.1
Magnetic suscept.:4.51
Classifier:N. Laridhi-Ouazaa, Tunis; J. Gattacceca and A. Hutzler, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):1.7
Type spec location:Tunis
Main mass:Fabien Kuntz
Finder:Marie Gerbet
Comments:Submitted by J. Gattacceca
Institutions
   and collections
CEREGE: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 10 Jun 2023)
Tunis: Départment du Géologie, Faculté de Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Campus Universitaire El Manar, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia (institutional address; updated 5 Nov 2012)
Kuntz: Fabien Kuntz, France; Website (private address)
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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:

Tunisia
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (33° 13' 42"N, 9° 55' 37"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 18 approved meteorites from Madaniyin, Tunisia
     This is 1 of 83 approved meteorites from Tunisia (plus 1 unapproved name)
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