Apr 4, 2025 · Gujba. Yobe, Nigeria. Fell 1984 April 3, 18:30 local time. Bencubbin-like meteorite. A conical meteorite fell in a corn field near the village of Bogga Dingare after a bright fireball …

April’s Meteorite of the Month is Gujba, a bencubbinite (CBa) meteorite that fell in April of 1984. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 85), Gujba was witnessed by the occupants of the …

Sep 1, 2003 · Gujba is a coarse-grained meteorite fall composed of 41 vol% large kamacite globules, 20 vol% large light-colored silicate globules with cryptocrystalline, barred pyroxene …

Gujba Bencubbin-Like Meteorite. Location: Bogga Dingare, Yobe, Nigeria, 11°29'30N, 11°39'30E. Found:1984, April 3 18:30 local time. Classification: Bencubbin-like meteorite, CBa. …

The Gujba, Nigeria meteorite is the first ob-served fall (3 April 1984) of a Bencubbin-like meteorite [1]. Gujba texturally resembles Ben-cubbin and QUE94411 except that, in Gujba, the coarse …

The most stunning of this rare and primitive class of meteorite, Gujba is a favorite of Ward, making this 995.9 gram end cut indispensable to the Ward collection. This meteorite is …

Sep 1, 2022 · As such, we propose a two-stage model to explain the formation of chondrules in Gujba, with Stage 1 characterized by incomplete condensation of vaporized material with an …

The Gujba meteorite is a Bencubbin-like stone with abundant metal nodules, which fell in Nigeria on 03 April 1984 (Grossman and Zipfel, 2001). The fall site, in corn fields near the village of …

- Meteoritical Bulletin 85 - M.K. Weisberg, J.S. Boesenberg and D.S. Ebel : "Gujba and origin of Bencubbin-like (CB) chondrites", Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIII, 2002 - O. Eugster and …

study of Gujba, a new metal-rich CB chondrite that is petrologically and oxygen isotopically similar to Bencubbin and Weatherford, and is the only CB fall [9]. The Gujba meteorite has impor-tant …