Description
Mount Tazerzait
Tahoua, Niger
Fell 1991 August 21, afternoon
Ordinary chondrite (L5)
A single stone of ~110 kg was witnessed to fall by a seven-year-old Tuareg boy. Numerous pieces of this were distributed by a Tuareg man. Mineralogy and classification (J. Otto, MPIF): olivine, Fa24.6; pyroxene, Fs20.8Wo1.3; plagioclase, An10.5Or5.9. Specimens: main mass, SML.
Mount Tazerzait meteorite doesn’t show impact shock alteration. It also has a high rate porosity and in some slices shows vulgs.
