Tissint Meteorite: New Mars Meteorite fall in Morocco

The existence of Martian meteorites in the region of Tata had been notified to a group of scientists of the Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Morocco, at the beginning of January 2012 by a nomad of Tata who had found a small fragment in the region. A soon as a scientific expedition arrived at the place of the meteorite fall, the members of the laboratory of Geo-heritage and Geo-materials science collected the debris of this Martian meteorite and many information’s. The Tissint fireball is the only fireball to have been observed and reported by numerous witnesses across the south-east of Morocco. The event was extremely valuable to the scientific community; show an extraordinary and rare event and were also the brightest and most comprehensively observed fireball in Morocco’s known astronomical history. Now we are in a position to draw the distribution ellipse of the fall, which starts on Jbel Al Gallab continues in the east-south-east direction above big rocky plateaus