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| Basic information | Name: Dahmani This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1981 Country: Tunisia Mass:  18 kg | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 2884 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as LL6. [show all] Search for other: LL chondrites, LL chondrites (type 4-7), Ordinary chondrites, and Ordinary chondrites (type 4-7) | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 60:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE DAHMANI, TUNISIA, STONY METEORITE Name: DAHMANI Place of fall: Near a village not far from Dahmani, Tunisia. 33°37'N., 8°50'E., approximately. Date of fall: May, 1981 Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite, amphoterite (LL6). Olivine Fa31. Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 18 kg Circumstances of fall: Seen to fall near a village, picked up by soldiers and sent to the Geological Survey, Tunis. Sources: N. Laridhi, Faculty of Sciences, Tunis; M. Christophe Michel-Levy, Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Universite de Paris VI, France. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 60, Meteoritics 17, 93-97 (1982)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Al Qasrayn, Tunisia This is 1 of 81 approved meteorites from Tunisia | ||||||||||||||||
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