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Zamakh
Basic information Name: Zamakh
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2007
Country: Yemen
Mass:help 210 g
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 104  (2015)  L4
Recommended:  L4    [explanation]

This is 1 of 2060 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as L4.   [show all]
Search for other: L chondrites, L chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 6 Jan 2015
Data from:
  MB104
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:'Ataq
Date:Sept 2007
Latitude:16°27.96'N
Longitude:47°37.12'E
Mass (g):210
Pieces:2
Class:L4
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):25.0±0.6 (n=11)
Ferrosilite (mol%):21.3±0.5 (n=7)
Wollastonite (mol%):1.4
Classifier:V. Moggi Cecchi, S. Caporali, G. Pratesi, MSP
Type spec mass (g):50.0
Type spec location:MSP
Main mass:Anonymous
Finder:Romano Serra, OAM
Comments:Submitted by Vanni Moggi Cecchi
Institutions
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MSP: Museo di Scienze Planetarie, Via Galcianese 20/H, 59100 Prato, Italy, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 22 Oct 2022)
OAM: Museo del Cielo e della Terra Vicolo Baciadonne 1 40017 San Giovanni in Persiceto ( BO) Italy Osservatorio Astronomico e Museo "Giorgio Abetti", San Giovanni Persiceto, Bologna, Italy; Website (institutional address; updated 31 Oct 2012)
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References: Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 104, MAPS 52, 2284, Octover 2017, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12930/full
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Geography:

Yemen
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (16° 27' 58"N, 47° 37' 7"E)

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     This is the only approved meteorite from 'Ataq, Yemen
     This is 1 of 4 approved meteorites from Yemen
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