Meteorite Beni M'Hira - Witnessed Fall January 8, 2001 (First of the Millenium)

Description

Beni M'Hira
Beni M'Hira
Fell january 8, 2001
Chondrite
L6
Specimen is 4.40g, as found
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After few specimens found right after the fall in 2001, this meteorite was forgotten, but during a hunt in Tunisia in 2012, we decided to investigate the area and tried to found more specimens. After hours and days on the field during 4 different travels in this country, we collected more than one hundred new specimens, and mapped this lost strewndlfield !
Beni M'hira
Basic information
Name:
Beni M'hira
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation:
There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall:
Yes
Year fell:
2001
Country:
Tunisia
Mass:
19 kg
Classification
history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:
MB 87
(2003)
L6
MetBase:
v. 7.1
(2006)
L6
Recommended:
L6
Writeup
Writeup from
MB 87:
Beni M’hira
Tataouine, Tunisia
Fell 2001 January 8, 3:00 hrs local time
Ordinary chondrite (L6)
A meteorite was seen to fall in the Beni M’hira region by the inhabitants of Ksar Beni M’hira, a small village ~35 km E of Foum Tataouine, (SE Tunisia). Three fragments weighing 1720, 300, and 200 g were recovered after the fall by local soldiers. An additional 7 pieces totalling >14 kg were later recovered by private finders. Classification (L. Folco,
MNA­SI
; N. Perchiazzi,
MSNP
; N. Laridhi Ouazaa,
Tunis
): olivine Fa24.3, orthoenstatite Fs21.4, shock stage S5, weathering grade W0. Magnetic susceptibility (P. Rochette,
CEREGE
), expressed as the decimal logarithm of apparent mass specific susceptibility (χ; in 10
−9
m
3
kg
−1
), is log χ = 5.01 ± 0.02. Specimens: 2190 g
Tunis
; type specimen, 29.2 g, and two thin sections,
MSNP
, one thin section,
MNA-SI
; 467.7 g,
MNHNP
; remaining mass with private collectors.
Institutions
and collections
CEREGE
: CEREGE BP 80 Avenue Philibert, Technopole de l'Arbois 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 4 France, France (institutional address; updated 29 Oct 2018)
MNA-SI
: Museo Nazionale dell'Antartide, Università di Siena, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena, Italy;
Website
(institutional address; updated 13 Dec 2011)
MNHNP
: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, IMPMC-CP52, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France, France;
Website
(institutional address)
SI
: Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, United States;
Website
(institutional address; updated 16 Jan 2012)
MSNP
: Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Pisa, Via Roma 53, I-56100 Calci (Pisa), Italy (institutional address)
Tunis
: Départment du Géologie, Faculté de Sciences de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Campus Universitaire El Manar, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia (institutional address; updated 5 Nov 2012)
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