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This 2.7kg meteorite is an individual stone found in 2011 in the desert of Oman (find photo below in comments). And so, it has its own MetBull entry, and has been characterized by Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde as an H6 chondrite.
As a member the iron-rich H-group, it is a deep reddish brown, and homogenous in color from a near-melting heating event that blended the early chondrules of our solar system’s formation.
In this case, we have the exact location of the find, and a photo of it in the desert, as captured by Marcin of PolandMet. And you can see how the dark stones stand out in the sandy Sahara: 
Other side:
Close up of some of the remaining fusion crust: 
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