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Ramlat ar Rabbab 001
Basic information Name: Ramlat ar Rabbab 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: RaR 001
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2019
Country: United Arab Emirates
Mass:help 9.7 g
Classification
  history:
Recommended:  H6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 6500 approved meteorites (plus 5 unapproved names) classified as H6.   [show all]
Search for other: H chondrites, H chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7)
Comments: Approved 28 Mar 2021
Revised 25 Jul 2021: Corrected name and country
Writeuphelp
Writeup from MB 110:

Ramlat ar Rabbab 001        22°43.335’N, 55°12.551’E
(Initially released under the incorrect name Al Huwaysah 033)

United Arab Emirates

Find: 2019 Jan

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H6)

History: Two stones found 140 m away by the same anonymous finder (5.69 g at 22°43.335’N, 55°12.551’E, 4.04 g at 22°43.408’N, 55°12.546’E). Half a day of searching around these two stones by three meteorite hunters gave no other finds.

Data from:
  MB110
  Table 0
  Line 0:
Date:2019 Jan
Latitude:22°43.335'N
Longitude:55°12.551'E
Mass (g):9.73
Pieces:2
Class:H6
Weathering grade:W5
Magnetic suscept.:4.86
Classifier:J. Gattacceca, CEREGE
Type spec mass (g):1.95
Type spec location:CEREGE
Main mass:anonymous
Finder:anonymous
Comments:work name 3CC01; submitted by Jérôme 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 29 Oct 2018)
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References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F.M., Grossman J., Bouvier A., Chabot N.L., D'Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Komatsu M., Miao B., and Schrader D. (2022) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 110. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 1-4
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Geography:

United Arab Emirates
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (22° 43' 20"N, 55° 12' 33"E)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 42 approved meteorites from United Arab Emirates
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Synonymshelp: Al Huwaysah 033 (Original incorrect name)

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