After many days of intensive research in the field, we are happy to present you the result of our hunting on http://www.beni-mhira.com
The meteorite fell in january 2001 near the city of Beni-M'Hira, 40 kilometers east of Tatahouine. It was a relatively discreet event in the meteorite community (nobody talked about it on the meteorite-list and what is on the market ?) compared to some other meteorite falls like Ben Sour, Bassikounou… We decided to go back to Tunisia and locate the strewnfield, note the testimonies of witnesses and draw the map of the ellipse. We met a 85 year old sheppard who saw the main mass fall a few meters from him and which dug a one meter large crater. We collected many information about the deflagration and less on the fragmentation details. Our intensive search led to about 150 stones in a 5 sq. kilometers area most of which are complete and in pristine conditions. We walked a total of 600 kilometers for three meteorite collectors and three expeditions. Most of the specimen you'll buy on http://www.beni-mhira.com will be sold with their gps coordinates and photo in-situ. In a few time, we will display the map of the strewnfield in a book with also the story of our meteorite hunting in Beni-M'Hira strewnfield, anecdotes and many photos of the finds. Prices start at 3$/g up to 5$/g. Free shipping from 100$. http://www.beni-mhira.com/images/benimhira.jpg Pierre-Marie Pele, Fabien Kuntz and Marie Gerbet ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
