NAME: Gao
TYPE: H5
COUNTRY: Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)
DATE OF FALL: March 5, 1960
T. K.W: Shower + 45kg

At least 16 stones, the largest weighing 2.5kg, fell 60 km N of the town of Leo, near the Upper Volta-Ghana border, reported, Met. Bull., 1967, (39), Meteoritics, 1970, 5, p.91. Analysis, olivine Fa18, B.Mason, GCA, 1967, 31, p.1100. Classification, A.L.Graham et al., Cat. Met. Software, 1992. Find circumstances, strewn field, W.Walton, Meteorite!, Nov. 1996, p.8. Noble gas data, shock classification, pairing with Guenie and Souma very likely based on noble gas isotope concentrations and petrography, J.Otto et al., MAPS, 1996, 31, p.A103 (abs.).

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