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Hammadah al Hamra meteorite (HaH)
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Hammadah al Hamra meteorite	is a kind of Sahara meteorite
	has fall location Hammadah al Hamra
	has acronym HaH
meteorite	has fall date recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods
	has fall coordinates in degrees, minutes and seconds of lattitude and longitude
	has fall map which appears as an elongated footprint which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity
	can have crater image
	has original mass which can over an order of magnitude greater than total mass of fragment(s) collected at the impact site
	has composition often minerals not found on Earth
	has relative abundance
	has total mass of finds 485755 kg
	has number of finds 1691
	has impact velocity when it hits the ground which is smaller than its velocity before it enters the atmosphere
	has impact angle
	has weather resistance which depends on its composition
	has monetary value large if the fall was witnessed
	has name based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred
	often produce power outages and failures in electrical equipment due to EMP (electromagnetic pulse)
	can be associated with crater
	has origin meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal
	vaporizes completely if size is between 3 micrometers and 3 millimeters
	can survive fall if size is larger than 3 mm and velocity is less than 24 km per second
	can survive fall if it fragments because smaller pieces with less mass are more easily slowed by the atmosphere
	has ablative mass loss depending on composition, more friable stony meteoroids loses more mass than iron meteoroid
	has ablative mass loss directly proportional to initial velocity
	can shatter during impact phase
	can fragment during meteor phase
	has fragmentation probability during meteor phase which depends on composition
meteorite find	has find date when the meteorite was found
	has value lower because the fall was not witnessed
	has weathering can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents
rock	has part mineral
	has texture
	has genesis

Kinds of Hammadah al Hamra meteorite :

• HaH 046 (2 facts)
• HaH 064 (9 facts)
• HaH 119 (12 facts)
• HaH 126 (7 facts)
• HaH 180 (9 facts)
• HaH 193 (9 facts)
• HaH 259 (11 facts)
• HaH 260 (13 facts)

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