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| Basic information | Name: Akhricha This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1968 Country: Algeria Mass:  1760 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 103 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as H. [show all] Search for other: H chondrites, Ordinary chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 AKHRICHA, ALGERIA, STONY METEORITE Name: AKHRICHA Synonyms: Daiet el Akhricha, Akhicha Place of find: About 15 km south-southwest of the center of Daiet el Akhricha (temporary lake of the plant akhricha), 145 km east-northeast (242°) from the city of Adrar (Touat Valley), Western Tademait Plateau, Algerian Sahara, Algeria. 28° 27'45"N, 1° 01'30"E. Date of find: March 20, 1968 Class and type: Stony. Olivine-bronzite chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 1760 g Circumstances of find: One almost complete stone, with a small fragment from it 0.5 m away, was found on Quaternary gravel overlying the Cretaceous Plateau. The stone is rather oxidized and weathered, and is evidently old. It 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. 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 195 approved meteorites from Adrar, Algeria (plus 1 unapproved name) This is 1 of 1315 approved meteorites from Algeria (plus 30 unapproved names) (plus 4 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Synonyms: |
Akhicha (In NHM Cat) Daiet el Akhricha (In NHM Cat) | ||||||||||||||||