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A 27.55 g stone was found on 1999 August 21 in the sand desert of Dar al Gani. Classification and mineralogy (A. Greshake, MNB, and M. Kurz, Kurz): a basaltic shergottite with porphyritic texture; large chemically zoned olivine phenocrysts are set into a fine-grained groundmass consisting mostly of pyroxene and maskelynite
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The Dar al Gani 975 (shergottite) meteorite was found in Libya, on the 21st August 1999.

27°19.63'N, 16°13.00'E

So for, a total of 10.5 kg. of basaltic shergottite have been found of the Dar al Gani shower. 
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