The meteoric stones of El Nakhla El Baharia (Egypt)

Abstract

According to the accounts which have been published by members of the Egyptian Geological Survey, a number of meteoric stones fell to earth on June 28, 1911, at about 9 in the morning, in the hamlets to the west and north of the village of El Nakhla El Baharia (31° 19′ N., 30° 21′ E.) in the district of Abu Hommos, about twenty-four miles east of Alexandria, Egypt.