Description: My name is Ruben Garcia - aka MrMeteorite - and I’m a meteorite hunter, dealer, and collector. I began my meteorite adventures in 1998 and since then I have found many thousands of meteorites as well purchased and sold many thousands more. I’ve been featured in many books and magazines about meteorites. Publications like Sky and Telescope, Discover, Iguana, Meteorite Times, and even the latest book by O. Richard and Dorothy Norton, called “What’s so Mysterious about Meteorites?” I’ve also been featured in such TV shows as, Cash and Treasures, Meteorite Men, Nova Science NOW with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the United Stats of America - a program all about various statistics - with Sklar Brothers as hosts. Of course, I’ve also been the subject of newspaper articles all across the country as well as various NPR and BBC radio shows. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE You can bid with confidence since everything I sell is guaranteed to be exactly as listed. I include a handwritten (business card size) certificate of authenticity with each specimen. If you have a question, please feel free to send a message before bidding. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here’s information (from the Meteorite Bulletin) about this particular meteorite.Bensour Basic information Name: Bensour This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: Yes Year fell: 2002 Country: Morocco Mass: 45 kg Classification history: Meteoritical Bulletin: (2004) LL6 MetBase: (2006) LL6 Recommended: LL6 This is 1 of 2913 approved meteorites (plus 2 unapproved names) classified as LL6. Writeup Bensour Morocco/Algeria Found, possible fall, 2002 February 11 Ordinary chondrite (LL6) Eyewitness accounts from several nomads in the border region of Morocco and Algeria attest to a significant fall of many individual stones on February 11, 2002. However these reports are not detailed. Total weight is estimated to be in excess of 45 kg. Individual stones (up to 9.2 kg) are very pale grey with a glistening black fusion crust. Classification and mineralogy (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS): Very fine grained monomict breccia composed of olivine (Fa31.6, FeO/MnO = 60.0), orthopyroxene (Wo3.5Fs24.3, FeO/MnO = 36.6), clinopyroxene, and sodic plagioclase with subordinate Ni-rich Fe-Ni metal, troilite and chromite. Sparse chondrules are present. Oxygen isotopes (D. Rumble, CIW): analyses of two whole rock fragments by laser fluorination gave δ18O = +5.3 ± 0.1, δ17O = +4.0 ± 0.1, Δ17O = +1.20 ± 0.01‰. Specimens: type specimen, 20 g, and one polished thin section, UWS; 1.5 kg, xHupé, main mass, 9.2 kg, MFarmer.
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