Since the name Oum Rokba was never approved, the question seems needless. I only know what I was told at the very beginning of the NWA rush, there was no reason for them to lie, we asked where they were from, we were given that answer. I never went to the location. For an old weathered typical chondrite it was not in my often hurried schedules. Michael Farmer
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Robert Verish <[email protected]> wrote: > A question to anyone who has hunted meteorites in Morocco: > > Other than a Berber tribesman, has any meteorite dealer/hunter ever found an > Oum Rokba stone, I mean, really picked-up from the ground in the actual > strewn-field one of the "several hundred" distinctive-looking, chondritic > stones that were originally recovered 12 years ago? > > I wrote an article back in Dec. 2008 about the Oum Rokba (H5) meteorites, > and I repeated the oft-quoted story about "stones being found by a Berber > native a few kilometers from an Oasis named Oum Rokba." Since then, I've > been asked by several people if I had any direct evidence of that recovery > and of its location, in order to make that statement. > > The actual phrase that I remember being asked was, "Don't you think that it > is strange that a strewn-field the size of Oum Rokba (many hundreds of > stones), that it's actual location wouldn't be better known? Even a couple > square kilometers around the Oum Rokba "oasis" isn't that large that it would > forever hide that large of a strewn-field, and by now, someone else must have > discovered it's location." > > Those questions posed to me were implying that, given the benefit any "name" > would give to the marketing of a meteorite, it should be considered as too > convenient, and that in order to accept the location of this strewn-field it > would require corroborating evidence from an independent source/hunter. > Also, that this notion would probably be met with resistance, because > preserving the mythology would be considered more important than confirming > the topography. > > Personally, all I need is to have just one guy stand-up and say, "Yeah, I > found one of those stones there." > > Bob V. > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
