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Bassikounou Meteorite Fall

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By Svend Buhl & Matthias Baermann


Maps and Appendix


 

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

 

Bassikounou and the Djebel Oulijam in the east. Oum Sdeira (Mousdéré) is marked in the north-eastern corner of map section

 

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)

 

Title page and article on page 4, Horizons, Nouakchott, October 23-26, 2006

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