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See Contribtor's information below.   Ureilite-an

TKW 3.95 kg. Observed fall 7 October 2008 in Nahr an Nil, Nubian Desert, Sudan.

Many stones from this fall have been classified, with a wide variety of results - Ureilite, polymict, anomalous; bencubbin; EH 4/5; and EL 3.

From the MetBul:

On October 6, 2008, a small asteroid called 2008 TC3 was discovered by the automated Catalina Sky Survey 1.5 m telescope at Mount Lemmon, Tucson, Arizona, and found to be on a collision course with Earth. Numerous astronomical observatories followed the object until it entered the Earth’s umbra at Oct. 7.076 UTC the next day. The astrometric position of 295 observations of 2008 TC3 over the period Oct. 6.278 to Oct. 7.063 was used to calculate the approach trajectory over the impact location in northern Sudan. The object exploded at a high ~37 km altitude over the Nubian Desert, and as a result the meteorites are spread over a large area. A search was organized by the University of Khartoum on Dec. 2–9, led by P. Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and M. H. Shaddad (Khartoum).

     

Vincent writes:

MS-323 (scientific work number)
Coarse-grained Ureilite (Pyroxene-rich)
Dimensions 70 x 66 x 40 mm
Weight: was at 250.05g before submitting samples; now it is 247.45g
The piece is in two halves with 157.29g and 90.16g

This is the largest Almahata Sitta piece owned by my father and me and probably the largest in private ownership, (SETI/NASA has slightly larger ones)

We will be saying goodbye to the piece by the end of the year and giving it a new home, but we haven't agreed yet.

If anyone has contacts to museums or is privately interested as a middleman for the perfect future location of the piece, feel welcome to contact us:

Siegfried@haberer-meteorite.de    IMCA 3774

Vincent@haberer-meteorite.de    IMCA 6960

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