Mount Tazerzait
Seen to fall in 1991 in Niger · 110 kg recovered · L5
Mount Tazerzait is the heaviest of the six falls recorded in Niger. It is the second-heaviest of the 76 L5 falls.
- Group
- L chondrites
- Recorded position
- 18.700° N, 4.800° E
The map is centred on Mount Tazerzait. Rings every 250 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Mount Tazerzait is Aïr, 379 km to the east. No other fall in the record lies within 250 km of Mount Tazerzait.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aïr | 1925 | L6 | 24 kg | 379 km east |
| 2 | Seldebourak | 1947 | H5 | 150 g | 460 km north |
| 3 | Birni N'konni | 1923 | H4 | 560 g | 551 km south |
| 4 | Tillaberi | 1970 | L6 | 3 kg | 605 km south-west |
| 5 | Dosso | 1962 | L6 | 1.2 kg | 652 km south |
| 6 | Karewar | 1949 | L6 | 180 g | 692 km south |
What L5 means
L5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with low total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. Mount Tazerzait carries about 27 times the median recovered mass of L5 falls. The nearest other L5 fall is Ouadangou in Burkina Faso, 819 km away. In date order among L5 falls, the one before Mount Tazerzait is Campos Sales (1991, Brazil) and the one after is Baszkówka (1994, Poland).
Mount Tazerzait in Niger’s record
In date order Mount Tazerzait is number 4 of the 6 falls recorded in Niger, which run from 1925 to 2004. The fall recorded before Mount Tazerzait in Niger is Tillaberi (1970); the next is Pétèlkolé (1995).
The 1990s
Mount Tazerzait is one of 54 falls dated to the 1990s. Elsewhere, the record lists four other falls in 1991, among them Campos Sales in Brazil, Tahara in Japan, Glatton in the United Kingdom.