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Bensour. (2002, Ordinary chondrite LL6), eyewitness accounts from several nomads in the border region of Morocco and Algeria attest to a significant fall of many individual stones. However these reports are not detailed. Total weight is estimated to be in excess of 45 kg, the largest being a 9.2 kilogram individual which broke into 3 large pieces on impact
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Bensour
Morocco/Algeria
Found, possible fall, 2002 February 11
Ordinary chondrite (LL6)
Eyewitness accounts from several nomads in the border region of Morocco and Algeria attest to a significant fall of many individual stones on February 11, 2002. However these reports are not detailed. Total weight is estimated to be in excess of 45 kg. Individual stones (up to 9.2 kg) are very pale grey with a glistening black fusion crust.
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The Bensour (LL6) meteorite fell in Guelmim-Es-Semara, Morocco, on the 11th February, 2002. 
A total mass of 45 kg was recovered. 

30°N, 7°W 



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