Orgueil meteorite (Montauban; Orguell [NHM Cat.]), Orgueil, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Latitude: 43°53'N
Longitude: 1°23'E
Ref.: Fisenko, A.V. and L.F. Semenova (1997) On the Selection of Chondrites for Studying Interstellar Diamond. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.
MacDougall, J.D. (2000) Sr isotopes in the Orgueil CI meteorite : Chronology of early solar system hydrothermal activity. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Earth and planetary sceinces: 109(1): 187-193.
A carbonaceous chondrite, class CI1, from a witnesses fall on May 14, 1864. Twenty stones were recovered over an area of several square miles. The stones weighed 14 kg.
NOTE: This meteorite was the subject of a hoax involving earth based organic materials glued to the stone and investigated as fossils of extraterrestrial origin.
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