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692.2 gram individual.   H5

TKW 100 kg. Observed fall 20 December 2008 near Tamdakht, (Ouarzazate) Morocco.

From the MetBul:

On December 20, 2008, witnesses from a number of locations in Morocco (Agadir, Marrakesh, Ouarzazate) observed a meteor with a W to E trajectory. According to the local newspaper, Al Massae (of December 27th), people from the high Atlas Mountains (between Marrakesh and Ouazazate) heard a sound and felt an aftershock. Due to the high relief in this mountain region, covered with snow at this time of the year, searching for the meteorite was a difficult task. The first reports on finding pieces of a meteorite came a couple of weeks later. The largest impact pit is located near Oued Aachir (1.10 m diameter and 70 cm depth, 31°09.8′N, 7°00.9′W), with a stone exceeding 30 kg and many small fragments. A second one is smaller, (about 20 cm diameter and 10 cm depth; 31°09.9′N 07°02.3′W) located 2 km W from the first one; the main mass from the second impact was probably about 500 g. Nine new impacts coordinates have been reported by S. Buhl and M. Aid, and P. Thomas reported 3 other impacts. A strewn field of at least 25 km long and 2 km wide has been outlined.

 

Herbert writes:

After the appearance of a fireball, traveling West to East, a shower of stones fell on the snow covered high Atlas mountains. Over 100 kg of chondrite meteorites were recovered. The largest stone, with a mass of over 30 kg, was found in an impact pit with a diameter of 1.10 m and a depth of 70 cm depth.