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| Basic information | Name: Ikhrarene This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1969 Country: Algeria Mass:  5.47 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 2027 approved meteorites (plus 4 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 50:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. DISCOVERY OF THE IKHRARENE, ALGERIA, STONY METEORITE Name: IKHRARENE Synonyms: Ikharene, Gara Ikhrarene Place of find: 2 km southwest of the eastern headland of the Gara Ikhrarene, on the Piste des Petroliers (Oilmen's Track) from Timimoun to In-Salah by Ikhrarene, 6 km northwest of the Compagnie des Petroles d'Algerie (C.P.A.) oil drilling station Ikhrarene Nr 1 (Ir 1) and 7 km northwest of the Ikhrarene rescue aerodrome, 153 km northeast (60°) of the city of Adrar (Touat Valley), Western Tademait Plateau, Algerian Sahara, Algeria. 28° 36'15"N, 1° 02'30"E. Date of find: February 13, 1969 Class and type: Stony. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite, very rich in chondrules (L4). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 5465 g Circumstances of find: One complete stone, half buried in a Quaternary sandy gravel overlying the Cretaceous Plateau, was found by J. Ph. Lefranc, geologist with the Centre de Recherches sur les Zones Arides, C.N.R.S., Paris, collaborator with the Algerian Geological Survey. The stone is obviously old, rather oxidized, and beginning to disaggregate in small part. Source: Paul Pellas, Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 50, Meteoritics 6, 111-124 (1971)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 193 approved meteorites from Adrar, Algeria (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 1306 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 30 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Gara Ikhrarene (In NHM Cat) Ikharene (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||