* Astronomy

Name: BOU HADID
Synonym: Moungar Bou Hadid
Place of find: 300 m southeast from the Compagnie des Petroles d'Algerie (C.P.A.) oil drilling site Bou Hadid Nr. 3 (Bd3), 8 km northwest of Moungar Bou Hadid (headland of Bou Hadid), 62 km northeast (55°) of the city of Adrar (Touat Valley), Western Tademait Plateau, Algerian Sahara, Algeria.
28° 18'45"N, 0° 14'E.
Date of find: February 3, 1969
Class and type: Stony. Olivine-hypersthene chondrite. Number of individual specimens: 1
Total weight: 374 g
Circumstances of find: One fragment, apparently of a larger mass, was found by J. Ph. Lefranc, geologist with the Centre de Recherches sur les Zones Arides, C.N.R.S., Paris, collaborator with the Algerian Geological Survey. It was on Quaternary gravel overlying the Cretaceous Plateau. A little oxidized, the stone seems to be old.
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