Oum Dreyga
This chondrite fell in Western
Sahara near Mauritania border at 2:00 am, on October 16, 2003.
Soldiers stationed on the border of Western Sahara and Mauritania witnessed
a large fireball fall, and the next few days they found many pieces
of the meteorites. A shower of stones fell, with over a hundred stones
found with a total known weight of around ~15 kilograms. Some
of the soldiers took stones to northern Morocco where it caught the
attention of Moroccan meteorite dealers, who collected the majority
of the stones from the soldiers.
This
meteorite is classified as a rare H3-5. I recently purchased a stash of
this meteorite from Morocco.
