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Name: AIOUN EL ATROUSS
Place of fall: 40 km south of the town of Aioun el Atrouss, in the locality called Gounquel, SE. Mauritania.
16° 23'5 3"N., 9° 34'1 3"W.
Date of fall: April 17, 1974.
Class and type: Stone. Hypersthene achondrite.
Number of individual
specimens: Not reported.
Total weight: Not reported.
Circumstances of fall: A fireball was observed and a sonic boom was heard. Meteoritic material was recovered from three separate sites in sandy, desert terrain by tribesmen.
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Title: Aioun EL Atrouss - A new hypersthene achondrite with eucritic inclusions
Authors: Lomena, I. S. M., Toure, F., Gibson, E. K., Jr., Clanton, U. S., & Reid, A. M.

As Earth moves around the sun, it travels surrounded by a giant bubble created by its own magnetic fields, called the magnetosphere. As the magnetosphere ploughs through space, it sets up a standing bow wave or bow shock, much like that in front of a moving ship. Just in front of this bow wave lies a complex, turbulent system called the foreshock. Conditions in the foreshock change in response to solar particles streaming in from the sun, moving magnetic fields and a host of waves, some fast, some slow, sweeping through the region.

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The Aioun el Atrouss (Diogenite) meteorite fell in Hodh el Gharbi, Mauritania, on the 17th April, 1974.
A total mass of 1000 g was recovered.

16° 23' 53"N, 9° 34' 13"W



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