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| Basic information | Name: Aioun el Atrouss This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1974 Country: Mauritania Mass:  1000 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 60 approved meteorites classified as Diogenite-pm. [show all] Search for other: Achondrites, Diogenites, and HED achondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 56:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE AIOUN EL ATROUSS, MAURITANIA, STONY METEORITE Name: AIOUN EL ATROUSS Place of fall: 40 km south of the town of Aioun el Atrouss, in the locality called Gounquel, SE. Mauritania. 16° 23'5 3"N., 9° 34'1 3"W. Date of fall: April 17, 1974. Class and type: Stone. Hypersthene achondrite. Number of individual specimens: Not reported. Total weight: Not reported. Circumstances of fall: A fireball was observed and a sonic boom was heard. Meteoritic material was recovered from three separate sites in sandy, desert terrain by tribesmen. Source: I.S.M. Lomena, F. Toure, E.K. Gibson, Jr., U.S. Clanton and A.M. Reid, 1976. Aioun el Atrouss: a new hypersthene achondrite with eucritic inclusions. Meteoritics 11, 51-57. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 56, Meteoritics 14, 161-175 (1979)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 3 approved meteorites from Hodh el Gharbi, Mauritania This is 1 of 212 approved meteorites from Mauritania (plus 2 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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