NWA 7797, Mesosiderite
Here’s a beautiful, fresh mesosiderite with huge olivine crystals. 52.2 grams.
Here’s a beautiful, fresh mesosiderite with huge olivine crystals. 52.2 grams.
Here’s another new mesosiderite from the Sahara. 20.5 grams.
This cute stone doesn’t have a texture that resembles any other Northwest African mesosiderites I’ve seen. It’s also one of the least-weathered. …
This find consisted of a fresh, oriented 331 gram mostly complete stone. Abundant olivine and pyroxene crystals are visible on the surface, …
Northwest Africa 176 is an unusual ungrouped ~iron meteorite that appears to be more closely related to carbonaceous chondrites than to most …
Meteoritical Bulletin entry for Taza. Long story short, it’s an ungrouped iron with a germanium content an order of magnitude or so …
Tata, otherwise known as NWA 1430, consisted of a single 113 kilogram iron meteorite that was, honestly, pretty ugly. It had been …
After hearing reports of a fireball in Morocco in late October of 2012, I kept an eye out for stones, but saw …
This hexahedrite isn’t too unusual, but it is pretty. And it’s fairly fresh; it has a partial heat-altered zone, contrary to the …
NWA 3204 is a pretty plessitic octahedrite with a fun shape; we initially thought that it might be a man-made artifact. Its …