A single 837 g stone was found on the 4,000 km² Dar al Gani plateau in the Libyan Sahara Desert. Analysis and classification were completed at the Institut für Planetologie, Münster, Germany (D. Weber, K. Pollok, A. Jäckel, L. Niemann, T. Grund, and A. Bischoff). This LL ordinary chondrite contains both petrologic type 5 and 6 components including impact melt phases, shock veins (S3), and free metal, and it has been weathered to grade W3. The photo shown above is an end section exhibiting the brecciated texture of this meteorite. Previously in the collection of Walter Zeitschel, Hanau, Germany.
