They estimated that the meteorite was probably a mesosiderite.
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The cobble named Fig Tree Barberton is thought to be a stony or stony-iron meteorite ( mesosiderite silicate ), while Allan Hills, and Zhong Shan may be iron meteorites.
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Spectroscopic observations through 2007 indicate that it has a large proportion of metal and achondrites on its surface ( either with or without a mesosiderite contribution ); which could also indicate that the surface regolith has undergone space weathering.
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The existence of a huge stony-iron mesosiderite approximately 45 kilometers from the Saharan city Chinguetti, Mauritania, has been a mystery since 1916, when Captain Gaston Ripert, a French consular official, claimed to have discovered'a huge iron hill high and long .'
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