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| Basic information | Name: Awere This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 1968 Country: Uganda Mass:  134 g | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 1647 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 51:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. FALL OF THE AWERE, UGANDA, STONY METEORITE Name: AWERE Place of fall: Awere, Omoro County, Uganda. Date of fall: July 12, 1968, about 3 a.m. local time. Class and type: Stone. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite (L4). Number of individual specimens: 1 Total weight: 134 g Circumstances of fall: The fireball shone brightly in the night sky and the fall was accompanied by detonations. A larger stone is also said to have fallen, but it has not been found. Source: Robert Hutchinson (sic). 1971. Awere, a new L4 chondrite fall. Meteoritics 6, 53-55. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 51, Meteoritics 7, 215-232 (1972)
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Statistics: This is the only approved meteorite from Northern, Uganda This is 1 of 6 approved meteorites from Uganda | ||||||||||||||||
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