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
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