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| Basic information | Name: El Idrissia This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1989 Country: Algeria Mass:  10 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 13053 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: | Revised 14 Jul 2011: Corrected year - was mistake in database only | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 86:
El Idrissia Djelfa, Algeria Fall 1989 March 10 Ordinary chondrite (L6) After a sonic boom was heard, three pieces of a meteorite were recovered by the police and Bounatiro Lout (an astrophysicist at CRAAG). The total known mass is ~10 kg with each of the pieces weighing between 2 and 4 kg. The meteorite fell near the village of El Idrissia on the desert platform with the nearest town being Ain Lahdjar. Classification and mineralogy (Mounia Messaoudi, ISTUSTHB; M. Bourot-Denise, MNHNP, B. Devouard, OPGC): olivine, Fa25.3, and pyroxene, Fs18.8, S2 and W1. Specimens: type specimen, 150 g, IST-USTHB and 2 kg, CRAAG; main mass, unknown. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
MNHNP: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France; Website (institutional address) CRAAG: Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Géophysique, Route de l'Observatoir Bp 63, Bouzareah - Algiers, Algeria (institutional address; updated 27 Feb 2011) IST-USTHB: Earth Science Institute, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene (USTHB), bp32, ElAlia, BabEzzouar, 16000 Algiers, Algeria (institutional address; updated 26 Nov 2020) OPGC: Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont-Ferrand, 5 rue Kessler, 63000 Clermont Ferrand, France (institutional address) USTHB: Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene, Algers, Algeria; Website (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 86, MAPS 37, A157-A184 (2002)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Djelfa, Algeria (plus 1 impact crater) This is 1 of 1400 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 33 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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