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Ain Ben Tili 001
Basic information Name: Ain Ben Tili 001
     This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: Mauritania
Mass:help 6.81 kg
Classification
  history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:  MB 111  (2023)  L6
Recommended:  L6    [explanation]

This is 1 of 12727 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 23 Jul 2022
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Writeup from MB 111:

Ain Ben Tili 001        25°06’14.54’’N, 09°23’58.22’’W

Tiris Zemmour, Mauritania

Find: 2021

Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L6)

History: The meteorite was purchased from a meteorite dealer in Morocco.

Physical characteristics: Five fragments almost completely covered with fresh fusion crust were found mid 2021 by nomads in northern Mauritania and subsequently purchased by the main mass holder from a meteorite dealer in Morocco.

Petrography: Strongly recrystallized ordinary chondrite with sparse relict chondrules. The plagioclase grain size is about 70 μm. Contains shock melt veins.

Geochemistry: olivine: Fa24.3±0.4 (Fa23.8-24.9, n=5); low-Ca pyroxene: Fs20.2±0.2Wo1.7±0.2 (Fs20.0-20.5Wo1.2-1.9, n=5); Ca-pyroxene: Fs7.3±0.4Wo44.9±0.3 (Fs6.7-7.8Wo44.5-45.5, n=5)

Data from:
  MB111
  Table 0
  Line 0:
State/Prov/County:Tiris Zemmour
Place of purchase:Morocco
Date:2021
Latitude:25°06'14.54''N
Longitude:09°23'58.22''W
Mass (g):6812
Pieces:5
Class:L6
Shock stage:S2
Weathering grade:W1
Fayalite (mol%):24.3
Ferrosilite (mol%):20.2; 7.3
Wollastonite (mol%):1.7; 44.9
Classifier:A. Greshake, MNB
Type spec mass (g):23.3
Type spec location:MNB
Main mass:Mateusz Szyszka
Comments:Submitted by Ansgar Greshake
Institutions
   and collections
MNB: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany (institutional address; updated 24 Dec 2011)
Catalogs:
References: Published in Gattacceca J., McCubbin F. M., Grossman J. N., Schrader D. L., Chabot N. L., D’Orazio M., Goodrich C., Greshake A., Gross J., Joy K. H., Komatsu M. and Miao B. (2023) The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 111. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58, 901–904. ?
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Geography:

Mauritania
Coordinates:
     Recommended::   (25° 6' 15"N, 9° 23' 58"W)

Statistics:
     This is 1 of 28 approved meteorites from Tiris Zemmour, Mauritania (plus 1 impact crater)
     This is 1 of 220 approved meteorites from Mauritania (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters)
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