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Bassikounou Meteorite Fall
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By Svend Buhl & Matthias Baermann
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Area map. Note the the few settlements in south-eastern
Mauritania in comparison to Mali. This is due to the
high aridness of the south-western tongue of the Sahara
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Bassikounou and the Djebel Oulijam in the east.
Oum Sdeira (Mousdéré) is marked in the north-eastern corner of map section
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Distribution ellipse of the Bassikounou meteorite fall.
Numbers indicate find location of the El Moichine mass (1),
several smaller masses of unknown weight (2,3,4) and a 1304gm mass
(5) found on the Oulijam mesa butte (catalog # 011)
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Title page and article on page 4, Horizons, Nouakchott, October 23-26, 2006
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