Al Haggounia 001/ Aubrite / 191.20g

Al Haggounia 001 (Aubrite)

Well preserved individual are rare even if large quantity of this aubrite were found

Al Haggounia 001 "Fossil or Paleo" Meteorite

Al Hagounia 001

Al Haggounia 001 "Fossil or Paleo" Meteorite

http://www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Al_Haggounia.html

Meteoritical Bulletin, meteorite Al Haggounia 001: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Al+Haggounia&code=44857

AL HAGGOUNIA (MOROCCO) STREWNFIELD.

H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane1, A. Jambon2, E. Rjimati3, 1Université

Hassan II Aïn Chock, Laboratoire Géosciences, BP 5366 Maârif

Casablanca Morocco (e-mail: h.chennaoui@fsac.ac.ma),

2Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6 Laboratoire MAGIE,

Case 110, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris France, 3Ministère de

l'Energie et des Mines, Rabat Morocco

Al Haggounia 001                       N27°30',W12°30'

Al Haggounia, Morocco

Find: 2006

Achondrite (aubrite)

History: Several tons of this material have been found on the ground or by digging near Al Haggounia, Morocco (Chennaoui et al. 2007) for description of the strewn field) and sold to several dealers. The coordinates are given for the center of the strewn field, which extends ~ 40 km.