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Oriented GAO meteorite
Michael Johnson, Curator of the Rocks from Space Collection
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GAO
Burkina Faso, Africa. Fell March 5, 1960. Ordinary chondrite (H5). Total known weight is 300 kilograms.
Bensour
Chondrite (LL6)
Fell February 10, 2002
Algeria and Morocco
Flight-oriented Bensour with prestine fusion crust and flow lines.
NWA 1941
Classified as a chondrite (L6). It was found in Algeria or Morocco in 2003, there were 18 stones found with a total known weight of 16 kilograms. This is a gorgeous meteorite, very fresh, tons of metal and small vesicles in a blue-grey matrix.
GAO
Burkina Faso, Africa. Fell March 5, 1960. Ordinary chondrite (H5). Total known weight is 300 kilograms.
Allende
CV3 Carbonaceous Chondrite
Fell February 8, 1969
Pueblito de Allende, Mexico
NWA
Latest addition to the Rocks from Space collection.
A large 6.5 kilogram unclassified NWA chondrite found in 2009. Not much is known about the find situation other than that it was supposed to be located near the border of Morocco.
Very fresh specimen with great patina and countless stunning deep thumbprinting that are actually the size of your thumb.