Thanks for the report Pierre-Marie! Did you find any yourself? Sergey On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Pelé Pierre-Marie <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > > Hello to the List ! > > Me and Fabien Kuntz (wwmeteorites) planned to go to Kosice this week to enjoy > slovakian food and have great fun searching for meteorites in the forests > when we heard on july 11 that a meteorite had fallen in southern Morocco. > > So we changed our plane tickets, rented a car then on july 12, we arrived in > Agadir. We headed to Foum El Hisn, 250 kilometers south-east of Agadir and we > arrived there in the afternoon. We had a short break at the hotel then we > went directly to the place.but first, the facts. > > On july 9 in the evening, people from Foum El Hisn heard three detonations > and saw a bolide fragmenting in three parts, south of their town. After > recovering several testimonies, the supposed trajectory is north-west to > south-east. > > In the morning of july 10, some inhabitants recovered the first specimen on > both sides of the road to Assa. Some pictures were published on Facebook > showing wonderful shiny crust like an eucrite. It was enough to decide us to > come. > > We arrived 48 hours after the fall and hundreds of people were already > searching by foot or 4wd cars. > The western part of the strewnfield is a alluvial rocky plain with hills > wereas the eastern part is more sandy and flat. > > We thought about a fall like Camel Donga or Puerto Lapice with many small > complete stones between 1 and 15 grams. In the facts, we found many morrocan > meteorite hunters (best hunters in the world) with empty hands dreaming of > Tissint martian meteorites. > > After several days hunting on the strewnfield, we only saw a 500 grams > specimen, heard about a 8kg stone (probably gossip) and 1kg, 200 grams > stones, saw 4 or 5 stones of about 50 grams, a few complete stones up to 5 > grams and many crumbs because of the friable nature of the stone. > Now, morocan people are bored with searching in the morning when weather is > acceptable and have a rest in the afternoon when temperature reaches 45 > degrees Celsius. We estimate the total known mass under 5.5 kilograms right > now. > > Today, june 17, we went again to the strewnfield but most people have left > the area. > > We are waiting for the analysis results, next week probably. > > http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=957559IMG2605.jpg > > http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=886794IMG2585.jpg > > http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=219447IMG2688.jpg > > http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=340834IMG2690.jpg > > http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=470019IMG2599.jpg > > http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=918416IMG2597.jpg > > > Pierre-Marie Pelé (Meteor-Center) and Fabien Kuntz (WWMeteorites) > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://three.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________
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