Bensour LL6 Chondrite Meteorites for Sale

Location: Bensour Coordinates unknown at present, Morocco/Algeria

Found: Found, possible fall, 2002 February 11

Type: Ordinary Chondrite LL6

Description: 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. Total weight is estimated to be in excess of 45 kg. Individual stones (up to 9.2 kg) are very pale grey with a glistening black fusion crust. Classification and mineralogy (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS): Very fine grained monomict breccia composed of olivine (Fa_31.6, FeO/MnO = 60.0), orthopyroxene (Wo_3.5Fs_24.3, FeO/MnO = 36.6), clinopyroxene, and sodic plagioclase with subordinate Ni-rich Fe-Ni metal, troilite and chromite. Sparse chondrules are present. Oxygen isotopes (D. Rumble, CIW): analyses of two whole rock fragments by laser fluorination gave δ¹⁸O = +5.3 ± 0.1, δ¹⁷O = +4.0 ± 0.1, Δ¹⁷O = +1.20 ± 0.01‰. (From Meteoritical Bulletin 88) According to this article, Bensour is a microbrecciated chondrite with Fa_30.7.

Link to Meteoritical Bulletin Database.


# BEN56-4	About Scale: Each photo has a small one centimeter cube. That's a little less than a half inch on a side. The coin above is a US dime.
Weight: 56.4 gm
Features: Individual 90% crust
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