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| Basic information | Name: Gheriat 004 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2017 Country: Libya Mass:  2.7 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 27 approved meteorites classified as Iron, IID. [show all] Search for other: IID irons, Iron meteorites, and Metal-rich meteorites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments: | Approved 28 Jun 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 106:
Gheriat 004 30.607804E, 13.438359N Gharyan, Libya Find: 2009 Classification: Iron meteorite (IID) History: In December 2009, a single dark redish-brown metallic stone was found in the Zamzem valley of Libya by brothers Mohammed and Abbas Alazhari and used as a hammer for several years before Abbas recognized it as a meteorite. In 2016, a small piece of the stone was sent to ROM for preliminary analysis, and later that year the remainder of the stone was sent to Dustin Dickens who submitted it for official classification at UWO. Petrography: (A. Bouvier) Fresh interior, medium octahedrite texture. No inclusions were observed in the repository specimen. Geochemistry: (A. Bouvier, UWO) Elemental composition of the metal in wt%: Ni = 9.8, Co=0.64; and in ppm: Cr=36.9, Cu=269, Ga73.2, As=6.5, W=2.6, Ir=9.8 and Au=0.55. Data checked against North Chile Filomena as an external standard. Classification: Iron, IID Specimens: Two slices totalling 92.1 g at UWO. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data from: MB106 Table 0 Line 0: |
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| Institutions and collections |
ROM: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada (institutional address; updated 18 Oct 2011) UWO: University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, BGS 1030, 1151 Richmond St. N, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7, Canada; Website (institutional address; updated 26 Jun 2024) |
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| References: | Published in Gattacceca J., Bouvier A., Grossman J., Metzler K., and Uehara M. (2019) Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 106. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 54 in press.
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Statistics: This is 1 of 215 approved meteorites from Gharyan, Libya (plus 16 unapproved names) This is 1 of 1569 approved meteorites from Libya (plus 25 unapproved names) (plus 2 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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