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Map of Tunisia
The Tatahouine meteorite fell on June 27, 1931 outside of the village of Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia
Date: 04/13/09
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Tatahouine - 1.5 grams
Tatahounie is classified as achondrite diogenite (ADIO) Ca-poor
Date: 01/01/00
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Tatahouine - 1.5 grams
We have left the grains of original desert sand on this fragment!
Date: 01/01/00
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Star Wars Movie Set
The desert outside Tatahouine was used for many key scenes in the Star Wars movie saga
Date: 04/13/09
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Tatahouine
Tatahouine is sometimes called the "green meteorite"
Date: 01/01/00
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Tatahouine
Tatahouine
Date: 01/01/00
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Tunisia Landscape
The Tunisian landscape is made up of wide desert spaces
Date: 04/13/09
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Tatahouine
Tatahouine
Date: 01/01/00
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Tatahouine
Tatahouine
Date: 01/01/00
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Taza, Morocco
The meteorite fragments were found in 2001
Date: 04/13/09
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Taza (NWA 859) - 1.5 grams
Taza (NWA 859) - 1.5 grams
Date: 01/01/00
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Taza (NWA 859) - 1.5 grams
Taza (NWA 859) - 1.5 grams
Date: 01/01/00
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Taza Landscape
The Taza meteorite is classified as an Ungrouped Plessitic Octahedrite
Date: 04/13/09
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Taza (NWA 859) - 2.8 grams
Nice heat shield on the top of this oriented stone
Date: 01/01/00
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Taza (NWA 859) - 2.8 grams
A flat, dark crusted bottom - like the re-entry vehicle of a spacecraft!
Date: 01/01/00
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Thuathe Plateau
The Village of Ha Boqate is below in the flat plain - image courtesy Michael Farmer
Date: 06/03/09
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Thuathe - 23.5 grams
The total amount of material recovered from the plateau and the valley below is about 45.3 kilograms
Date: 01/01/00
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Thuathe - 23.5 grams
Our nicely crusted individual is classified as H4/5 chondrite
Date: 01/01/00
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Thuathe Strewn Field
The meteorite entered east to west and exploded over Lesotho producing this elliptical strewn field extending 7.4 by 1.9 kilometers on the Thuathe Plateau - courtesy Meteorites Australia
Date: 06/03/09
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Thuathe - 3.93 grams
A great look inside of the meteorite from this shoe-shaped slice
Date: 06/03/09
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Thuathe - 3.93 grams
The other side of the shoe has some nice bits of metal
Date: 06/03/09
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