Oued Bourdim 001 is a pallasite (PES) found in Morocco in 2014. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 104): In November, 2007, Brahim Oubadi from Bouanane, Morocco, was searching for meteorites on the Oued Bourdim wadi. He found many small pieces of a heavy rock (for its size) that looked different from the surrounding materials. […]
Category: Meteorites
Hueco Tanks
Hueco Tanks is an (L6) ordinary chondrite found December 25, 1985, in Texas. The single 314 g stone recovered was discovered by Mr. George Bioole in El Paso County, while he was hunting for insects in a sand blow. Read the Meteoritical Bulletin entry here! […]
Benguerir
Benguerir is an (LL6) ordinary chondrite that fell in Morocco in 2004. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 89): A meteorite shower was witnessed to fall near Benguerir (~50 km due north of Marrakesh, Morocco) by local people on 2004 November 22nd at ~11:45 GMT. The fall had an east-to-west trajectory. The estimated total recovered […]
Apt
Apt is an (L6) ordinary chondrite that fell October 8, 1803, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France. A report of the fall was recorded in “Der neueste Meteorstein”, published in the Annalen der Physik in 1804 (16(1), p. 72). According to this report, on a slightly overcast morning, a very loud crash was […]
Sericho
Sericho is a pallasite found in Kenya in 2016. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 106): In 2016, two brothers were searching for their camels and came across several large, dense stones west of the village of Habaswein and south of Sericho, Kenya. There are no rocks in this area, so they decided they were […]
