[meteorite-list] another Kem-Kem

From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 28 Jan 2008 19:18:32 UT
Message-ID: <DIIE.000000BB000025CD_at_paulinet.de>

Hello Z?limir and List,

That's why you find the following comment in Met.Bull 85:

Many meteorites lacking first-hand documentation of the find location are being
sold by Moroccan rock and mineral dealers, and by people from other countries
who have collected material in Morocco. These meteorites are all sold as Moroccan
finds, but there are plausible reports that some were actually collected in Algeria
or Western Sahara. The reliability of locality information associated with these meteorites
is difficult to assess due to the anonymity of all of the finders and most of the original
sellers. All such meteorites will henceforth be numbered in a "Northwest Africa" (NWA)
series. The Nomenclature Committee considers it possible that differently numbered
specimens are paired with each other or with other named meteorites, and some may
even be derived from the same individual object.

Meteorites from Morocco. Most of these were purchased from Moroccan dealers.
If information was supplied by a dealer about where the specimen may have been
collected, this is noted under "Possible origin." None of the exact collection
locations are known (Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 85, 2001 July).

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