TABLE 9. 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.

Name

Possible

Place of

Lat†

Long†

Mass

Pieces

Class

Shock

WG

Fa

Fs

Notes‡

Info§

Origin

Purchase

(N)

(W)

(g)

(mol%)

(mol%)

Northwest Africa (NWA)

NWA 001

Kem Kem

Unknown

1200

1

L6

S3

W2

25.2

a

NWA 002

Anbdour

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

10

many

EL6

S6

W4

0.52

1

b

NWA 003

Azhakan

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

120

1

H4

S3

W2

18.9

16.9

b

NWA 004

Azhakan

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

115

1

L4

S4

W1

22.2

18.6 (12.6-20.5)

b

NWA 005

Bonkzhy

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

50

2

H4

S3

W3

17.4

16.7

b

NWA 006

Bonkzhy

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

15

1

H5

S4

W4

18.3

17.4

b

NWA 007

Bonkzhy

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

15

2

LL5

S5

W0

27.5

24.3

b

NWA 008

Bonkzhy

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

5

1

H4-5

S4

W3

18.8 (17.4-22.0)

16.4

b

NWA 009

Erfoud

31°30'

4°15'

4

1

L5

S4

W1

24.1 (22.9-30.2)

20.8

b

NWA 010

Hamada

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

2000

1

H4

S2

W3

17.2

14.9

b

NWA 011

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

40

1

Eucrite

35-64

2

b

NWA 012

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

15

1

L4

S3

W1

22.5

17.2 (9.2-22.1)

b

NWA 013

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

80

1

L5

S4

W3

24.4

21.7

b

NWA 014

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

39

1

H3-6

S4

W3

20.5 (18.2-24.6)

17.1

b

NWA 015

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

39

1

H4

S3

W2

17.7

15.6

b

NWA 016

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

39

1

H3-4

S4

W3

20.7 (15.1-30.3)

15.4 (10.5-17.4)

b

NWA 017

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

39

1

H4

S2

W1

17.9

17

b

NWA 018

Rissani

31°20'

4°20'

39

1

H5

S4

W3

18.6

17

b

NWA 019

Tagmart

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

116

1

L4

S3

W1

22.2

21

3

b

NWA 020

Tagmart

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

64

1

L4

S3

W1

21.7

21.3

3

b

NWA 021

Tagmart

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

166

1

L4

S3

W1

22.1

21.2

3

b

NWA 022

Tagmart

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

30

1

L4

S3

W1

22.2

18.9

b

NWA 023

Tagmart

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

76

1

L4

S3

W1

22.1

21.2 (15.0-26.6)

3

b

NWA 024

Wol-Hammit

Tagounite

29°55'

5°35'

800

1

H4

S5

W3

19.6

16.7

b

NWA 025

Zagora

30°20'

5°50'

510

1

L6

S3

W2

23.7

20.8

4

b

NWA 026

Zagora

30°20'

5°50'

1265

1

L6

S3

W2

24.3

20.6

4

b

NWA 027

Zagora

30°20'

5°50'

705

1

H5

S2

W3

16.9

15.9

5

b

NWA 028

Zagora

30°20'

5°50'

305

1

H3.7

S3

W1

16.8 (3.61-23.8)

9.7 (0.96-28.7)

6

b

NWA 029

Zagora

30°20'

5°50'

275

1

L6

S3

W2

24.1

20.9

b

NWA 030

Zagora

30°20'

5°50'

65

1

H4

S3

W1

18

16.3

b

NWA 031

Zagora

30°20'

5°50'

730

1

H5

S2

W4

16.8

15.8

5

b

NWA 032

&

~300

1

Lunar

See separate entry

^†Coordinates of place of purchase, not where the meteorite was found.
^‡ 1 = Partly melted; 0.93 wt% Si in metal; plag, An10.5. 2 = Unbrecciated; feldspar, An83. 3 = NWA 019, 020, 021, and 023 are probably paired. 4 = NWA 025 and 026 are probably paired. 5 = NWA 027 and 031 are probably paired. 6 = Percent mean deviation of olivine composition = 23%.
^§ a = purchased by D. Bessey; classified by A. Rubin (UCLA); type specimen, 31 g, UCLA. b = purchased by S. Afanasiev, V. Kalachev and D. Kachalin during a 1999 meteorite expedition in the Moroccan Sahara; classifications by S. Afanasiev and M. Ivanova (Vernad); specimens, Vernad.
^& Found by a consortium of anonymous European collectors; location possibly near 30º22'N 5º3'W, which is west of the Kem Kem plateau.