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The Guenie and Gao chondrites from Burkina Faso: Probably a single shower of stones
Author(s) -
BOUROTDENISE Michèle,
WENMENGA Urbain,
CHRISTOPHE Mireille
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
meteoritics and planetary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.09
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 1086-9379
DOI - 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01330.x
Subject(s) - meteorite , chondrite , shower , geology , astrobiology , geochemistry , physics , nozzle , thermodynamics
— Two H4–5 meteorite showers have been reported to have fallen at one month intervals in the Guenie‐Gao area, but eyewitness accounts are imprecise. Though subtle mineralogical differences are found between stones with different 21 Ne content, these differences are insufficient to confirm that two meteorite falls had occurred.