The Chinguetti meteorite is a find reputed to come from a large unconfirmed 'iron mountain' in Africa. The existence of a huge stony-iron mesosiderite...
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Chinguetti oil field, Mauritania's first offshore oil field Greater Mauritania, (بلاد شنقيط; Bilād Šinqīṭ; Bilad Chinguetti) The Chinguetti meteorite...
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Mesosiderite (category Meteorite classes)
(Papua New Guinea), and at Patwar (India) in 1935. The legendary Chinguetti meteorite is also supposed to be a mesosiderite. The asteroid 16 Psyche is...
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IA [fr]/ANRU [fr] project "Vigie-Ciel". Le fer de Dieu : histoire de la météorite de Chinguetti, with Théodore Monod, Actes Sud, 2008, 152 pages. ISBN 978-2742775521...
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Tourism in Mauritania (section Chinguetti)
cities. Chinguetti is 86 km from Atar, 90 km and 128 km from Ouadane, along the plateau track. Regarded as the 7th Holy City of Islam, Chinguetti was a...
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as well as to the Arizona State University's Meteoritic Institute, concerning their Chinguetti meteorite research planning project. He was a Senior Research...
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The following is a list of notable rocks and stones. List of largest meteorites on Earth List of longest natural arches List of rock formations List of...
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Tais-toi et marche ..., exploration journal from El Ghallaouya-Aratane-Chinguetti, Actes Sud, 2002. 1960 Patrons's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society...
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Allan Hills A81005 (category Achondrite meteorites)
the "A" in front of the number) was the first meteorite to be recognised as a lunar meteorite. The meteorite Yamato 791197 was discovered in 1979 but its...
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