On Saturday March 11, 2023, at around 10:30 local time, several eyewitnesses from Algeria and Mauritania reported seeing a bright fireball approaching from north to south at a relatively high speed and with a shallow angle of entry.
Residents of the Algerian town of El Menia reported hearing a sonic boom followed by stones hitting the ground.
The total known weight is estimated at around 75 kg.
On Saturday March 11, 2023, at around 10:30 local time, several eyewitnesses from Algeria and Mauritania reported seeing a bright fireball approaching from north to south at a relatively high speed and with a shallow angle of entry.
Residents of the Algerian town of El Menia reported hearing a sonic boom followed by stones hitting the ground.
The total known weight is estimated at around 75 kg.
On Saturday March 11, 2023, at around 10:30 local time, several eyewitnesses from Algeria and Mauritania reported seeing a bright fireball approaching from north to south at a relatively high speed and with a shallow angle of entry.
Residents of the Algerian town of El Menia reported hearing a sonic boom followed by stones hitting the ground.
The total known weight is estimated at around 75 kg.
On Saturday March 11, 2023, at around 10:30 local time, several eyewitnesses from Algeria and Mauritania reported seeing a bright fireball approaching from north to south at a relatively high speed and with a shallow angle of entry.
Residents of the Algerian town of El Menia reported hearing a sonic boom followed by stones hitting the ground.
The total known weight is estimated at around 75 kg.
On Saturday March 11, 2023, at around 10:30 local time, several eyewitnesses from Algeria and Mauritania reported seeing a bright fireball approaching from north to south at a relatively high speed and with a shallow angle of entry.
Residents of the Algerian town of El Menia reported hearing a sonic boom followed by stones hitting the ground.
The total known weight is estimated at around 75 kg.
On Saturday March 11, 2023, at around 10:30 local time, several eyewitnesses from Algeria and Mauritania reported seeing a bright fireball approaching from north to south at a relatively high speed and with a shallow angle of entry.
Residents of the Algerian town of El Menia reported hearing a sonic boom followed by stones hitting the ground.
The total known weight is estimated at around 75 kg.
On Saturday March 11, 2023, at around 10:30 local time, several eyewitnesses from Algeria and Mauritania reported seeing a bright fireball approaching from north to south at a relatively high speed and with a shallow angle of entry.
Residents of the Algerian town of El Menia reported hearing a sonic boom followed by stones hitting the ground.
The total known weight is estimated at around 75 kg.
In a clear sky, a fireball, followed by a trail of smoke was seen over Havana, Cuba, and then fell to the ground in a shower of fragments in the Vinales Valley, 180 km from the capital, in the west of the country… Falling around 1:30 pm local time, on February 1, without causing any casualties, the fall of the meteorite was accompanied by a lightning bolt and a strong explosion. This meteorite was classified as an ordinary chondrite type L6, about 50 kg of this meteorite were found.
In a clear sky, a fireball, followed by a trail of smoke was seen over Havana, Cuba, and then fell to the ground in a shower of fragments in the Vinales Valley, 180 km from the capital, in the west of the country… Falling around 1:30 pm local time, on February 1, without causing any casualties, the fall of the meteorite was accompanied by a lightning bolt and a strong explosion. This meteorite was classified as an ordinary chondrite type L6, about 50 kg of this meteorite were found.
Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.