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The Gujba Meteorite fell in Nigeria on April 3, 1984.

Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2jgCe7p

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The Mysterious Gujba Meteorite — condensed from the Nebular Gases 4.6 billion years ago

Gujba is a bencubbinite, an extremely exotic meteorite class and is the only witnessed bencubbinite fall. The local people of Bogga Dingare witnessed this 1984 fall and hammered most of it into little pieces.
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