Tamdakht
Seen to fall in 2008 in Morocco · 100 kg recovered · H5
Tamdakht is the second-heaviest of the eight falls recorded in Morocco. It carries about 33 times the median recovered mass of H5 falls.
- Group
- H chondrites
- Recorded position
- 31.163° N, 7.015° W
The map is centred on Tamdakht. Rings every 200 km; numbers match the table below.
Nearest recorded falls
The closest recorded fall to Tamdakht is Oued el Hadjar, 117 km to the south. Within 250 km lie five other recorded falls.
| # | Fall | Year | Class | Recovered | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oued el Hadjar | 1986 | LL6 | 1.2 kg | 117 km south |
| 2 | Bensour | 2002 | LL6 | 45 kg | 129 km south |
| 3 | Douar Mghila | 1932 | LL6 | 1.2 kg | 147 km north-east |
| 4 | Benguerir | 2004 | LL6 | 25 kg | 162 km north-west |
| 5 | Tissint | 2011 | Martian (shergottite) | 7 kg | 196 km south |
| 6 | Zag | 1998 | H3-6 | 175 kg | 482 km south-west |
What H5 means
H5 is the label for an ordinary chondrite with high total iron, petrologic type 5, moderately heated on its parent body. By recovered mass Tamdakht ranks 11th of the 159 H5 falls. The nearest other H5 fall is Chergach in Mali, 853 km away. In date order among H5 falls, the one before Tamdakht is Red Canyon Lake (2007, the United States) and the one after is Grimsby (2009, Canada).
Tamdakht in Morocco’s record
In date order Tamdakht is number 7 of the 8 falls recorded in Morocco, which run from 1932 to 2011. The fall recorded before Tamdakht in Morocco is Benguerir (2004); the next is Tissint (2011).
The 2000s
Tamdakht is one of 58 falls dated to the 2000s. Elsewhere, the record lists eight other falls in 2008, among them Sulagiri in India, Buzzard Coulee in Canada, Pleşcoi in Romania.