Zag
Western
Sahara or Morocco
Fell 1998 August 4 or 5
Ordinary chondrite (H3-6)
Coordinates:
(27° 20'N, 9° 20'W)
A
meteorite fall was witnessed on a mountain in the
vicinity of Zag, Morocco. About 175 kg have been
sold by local people to dealers and collectors
under the names Zag, Sagd, and Tan-Tan. Classifica-tion
and mineralogy (A. Bischoff and D. Weber, Mün):
a regolith breccia (pers. comm., R. Wieler, ETH);
olivine, Fa1.6–30.0, with peak at Fa19; pyroxene,
Fs3.3–26.6 with peak at Fs17; shock stage,
S3; weathering grade, W0/1.
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