SW El Mokhtar, Erg Chech, Timbuktu district, Mali

Fall: July 2 or 3 2007

Specimen Size: 70 grams 1.86 x 1.15 x 1.24 inches

Class: Chondrite H5

An ordinary chondrite from the H group that is petrologic type 5

In fall and winter, 2007 ~100 kg of meteorites were collected in the Erg Chech, north of Taoudenni. Nomads reported the stones fell after a smoke cloud was seen and several detonations were heard over a wide area during daytime in July 2007. The finder of the first meteorites was Mr Ouled Bleila, who died in a car accident on his way back from the trip to the Chergach strewn field in October 2007. According to the Tuareg people from Algeria who visited the fall site in September 2007, the elliptical strewn field stretches for more than 20 km in a northeasterly direction. This piece has a nice amount of crust with a end that shows what the interior of the meteorite looked like. This piece comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Planetary Studies Foundation.