Hello Bob, Mike,
To my best knowledge, Oum Rokba is (or should be, or will be...?)
synonym of NWA 400.
My best source for now is my own writeup from my collection catalogue,
written a few years ago, saying that for Oum Roka, one shound see
NWA 400.
The Oum Rokba piece I got from Blaine
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
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
Hello Bob,
Oum Rokba was apparently re-named NWA 400.
I purchased my specimen from Blaine Reed in 2001 and the provenance on
his label was then Algeria (neither Morocco, nor Western Sahara).
If you look at the MetBull database, NWA 400 is still provisional and
the synonym Oum Rokba is not
A question for those of you who may have visited this strewn field:
In September of 2000, several hundred chondritic stones with a total known
weight of around 100 kilos were exported out of Morocco. All of these stones
were found by a Berber native turned meteorite hunter a few kilometers from
G'day Zelimir,
I'm fairly sure Oum Rokba was also classified under the name, NWA 400. I
don't think either name has been 'officially' described though. Maybe
someone else has a bit more info?!
Cheers,
Jeff Kuyken
I.M.C.A. #3085
www.meteorites.com.au
- Original Message -
From: Zelimir
In a message dated 9/14/2004 11:41:40 PM Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm fairly sure Oum Rokba was also classified under the name, NWA 400. I
don't think either name has been 'officially' described though. Maybe
someone else has a bit more info?!
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