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1.2 kg individual.   LL6

TKW 45 kg. Possibly an observed fall* 11 February 2002, in Morocco.

* The MetBul states:

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.

Kally writes:

1.2 kg Individual with regmaglypts and impact traces.

Back-story: Nomad Mahouaily heard a loud supersonic boom and soon after that, he noticed some stones falling from the sky at his campsite near Merzouga (Morocco) where he lived as a herdsman. He collected the pieces immediately and stored them in his tent.

The next day he brought the biggest chunk to the Rissani market, where he encountered Sidi Mohammed Ismaily (a well-known meteorite and fossils dealer), by chance and showed him his find. Ismaily bought the piece and kept it in his collection till we met in November 2014 at Erfoud.

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