MUSEUM QUALITY! WITNESSED FALL! LARGE CRUSTED STONE! GAO-GUENIE METEORITE 245 GM

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Gao-Guenie
Basic information
Name:
Gao-Guenie
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation:
There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite.
Observed fall:
Yes
Year fell:
1960
Country:
Burkina Faso
Classification
history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:
MB 83:
(1999)
H
NHM Catalogue:      5th edition
(2000)
H5
MetBase:
v. 7.1
(2006)
H5
Recommended:
H5
This is 1 of 10943 approved meteorites (plus 20 unapproved names) classified as H5.
Writeup
Writeup from MB 39:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy.
GAO
, a village about 60 km N of the town of Leo, Upper Volta; φ
= 11
°
39
1
N, λ = 2°11'W.
FALL, March 5, 1960, about 1700 hours.
STONY, olivine-bronzite chondrite.
At least 16 stones were recovered, the largest weighing 2.5 kg; 1 kg in U.S. National Museum (Washington, USA).
Writeup from MB 57:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy.
FALL OF THE
GUENIE,
UPPER VOLTA, STONY METEORITE
Name:
GUENIE
Place of fall:                                   Upper Volta
Date of fall:                                    April, 1960.
Class and type:                             Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H4). Olivine Fa18-20.
Number of individual
specimens:                                 A shower, total number not known.
Total weight:                                 Not known, 3.6 kg, four stones, in Paris (Natural History Museum).
Circumstances of fall:                  Not reported.
Source:                                           M. Bourot et al,
1975.
Guenie and Tilaberi: Descriptions of two chondrites fallen in Africa.
Meteoritics
10,
368 (abs.). See also M. Bourot, 1976. Etude mineralogique de la meteorite de Guenie. 3rd cycle thesis, University of Paris VI.
Writeup from MB 83:
Gao-Guenie
, new name With the recent paper by Bourot-Denise
et al.
(1998), the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee has decided that a new, collective name,
Gao-Guenie
, will be bestowed upon all meteorites formerly identified as either
Gao (Upper Volta)
(frequently truncated to
Gao
) or
Guenie
. It had been reported that two meteorite showers occurred one month apart in 1960 in the country now known as Burkina Faso. But the new work confirms long-held suspicions that the two meteorites are indistinguishable from each other and that there was most likely only one fall (1960 March 5).  The confusion about this meteorite has been compounded by the fact that new stones continue to be found
~
40 years after the fall and are given arbitrarily one or the other name. Henceforth, the official name for all meteorites from this shower will be
Gao-Guenie
, with the names
Gao (Upper Volta)
and
Guenie
as recognized synonyms.
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