Taghzout meteorite (H5) added

Taghzout is the first meteorite with an orbit from Morocco, identified using the MOFID (Moroccan Observatory for Fireball Detection) after its fall in August 2021. Although the search area was relatively large at 18 km2 (5 km2 within the 1 sigma area), a single meteorite of 2.1 kg was eventually found, as reported by Guennoun et al. (2024) in an abstract submitted to the Meteoritical Society conference of 2024. Unfortunately, they only give the three most commonly given orbital elements (a, e, i) in the abstract, but not the argument of perihelion and the ascending node, so the orbit cannot be plotted in the usual projection.

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