In Collection : 180 grams individual

In Collection : 138 grams individual

Widely unnoticed by the meteoritic community on October 16, 2006 at 04:00 hrs, a meteorite fell at the village of Bassikounou in southeast Mauritania. Despite the fact that the event caused the inhabitants of the huge but sparsely populated region to expect the end of the world, only few details of the event were published in the local Mauritanian media. Due to the extreme remoteness of the fall area it took months until meteorite fragments collected by locals since the morning after the fall found their way to people who could value their importance.

Check the complete story of this meteorite on Niger-Meteorit-Recon website.