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Gao-Guenie (H5)
Country: Burkina Faso
State/District: Gourounsi
Co-ordinates: 11°39'N 2°11'W
Date of fall: 1960, March 05 1700
Total known weight: ? unknown
Number of pieces: 16
Type: Ordinary chondrite, H5
Shock Stage: S1-2
Mineral analyses:
Olivine Fa18
Pairings: not known
Synonyms: Gao (Upper Volta); Guenie
Show Description and references (MetBase)

At least 16 stones, the largest weighing 2.5kg, fell 60 km N of the town of Leo, near the Upper Volta-Ghana border, reported, Met. Bull., 1967, (39), Meteoritics, 1970, 5, p.91. Analysis, olivine Fa18, B.Mason, GCA, 1967, 31, p.1100. Classification, A.L.Graham et al., Cat. Met. Software, 1992. Find circumstances, strewn field, W.Walton, Meteorite!, Nov. 1996, p.8. Noble gas data, shock classification, pairing with Guenie and Souma very likely based on noble gas isotope concentrations and petrography, J.Otto et al., MAPS, 1996, 31, p.A103 (abs.). Certainly identical with Guenie, M.Bourot-Denise et al., MAPS, 1998, 33, p.A181. The Nomenclature Committee has decided that a new, collective name, Gao-Guenie, will be bestowed upon all meteorites formerly identified as either Gao (Upper Volta) or Guenie, J.N.Grossman, Met. Bull. 83, MAPS, 1999, 34, p.A169. For details and references on Guenie, see separate entry under Guenie. Fe and Zn contents of olivines and pyroxenes, W.Klöck et al., MAPS, 1999, 34, p.A65 (abs.). Determination of grain density, L.B.Moore et al., LPSC, 1999, 30, abs. #1128. Bidirectional reflectance, N.Tomita and A.M.Nakamura, LPSC, 2002, 33, abs. #1100. Magnetic susceptibility, P.Rochette et al., MAPS, 2003, 38, p.251. Impact disruption experiments, G.J.Flynn and D.D.Durda, LPSC, 2004, 35, abs. #1072.
The meteorite data copied from MetBase 7.0 for Windows.
For information about this software please contact the Author: Joern Koblitz, The MetBase Library of Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, Benquestrasse 27, D-28209 Bremen, Germany
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Specimen ID# 653
Description: Nice individual
Size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm
Weight: 27.1 gr
  
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