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Name: UMM RUABA.
The place of fall or discovery: Near the villages of Magrour and Umm Hemeima, some 90 km to the north of the town of Umm Ruaba, Western Sudan; Lat = 13°28' N, Long = 31°13' E.
Date of fall or discovery: FALL, December 27, 1966, between 13 and 14 hrs.
Class and type: STONY.
Number of individual specimens: 2.
Total weight: 1.700 kg.
Circumstances of the fall or discovery: A thundering sound was heard for about 10 minutes followed by the fall of bolide. A whole individual specimen weighing 1.4 kg. was turned over to the Geological Survey of Sudan. There is a fragment weighing about 300 gr., which was obviously broken from another individual specimen.

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Google earth file; Umm Ruaba [KML]



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The Umm Ruaba (L5) meteorite fell in Kurdufan, Sudan, on the 27th December, 1966.
A total mass of 1700 g was recovered.

13° 28'N, 31° 13'E



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