NWA Stony Meteorite 49,68 g, Saharan Desert, with Stand NonCom, Great for Collectors, Space, Amazing deals gift design statuette

Stony Meteorites, Ordinary Chondrites, NWA, NonCom, Saharan Desert, Great Acquisition for Collectors


This specimen is about 44*31*23 mm.

Weight 49,68 g.


Name: NWA

Found in the Sahara desert in a 2018 year.

Unclassified

NWA 1102


Certificate
IMCA #4167

Ordinary Chondrites

The ordinary chondrites (sometimes called the O chondrites) are a class of stony chondritic meteorites. They are by far the most numerous group and comprise about 87% of all finds. Hence, they have been dubbed "ordinary". The ordinary chondrites are thought to have originated from three parent asteroids, with the fragments making up the H chondrite, L chondrite and LL chondrite groups respectively.
It is likely that the ordinary chondrites comprise a detailed sample of but a few select asteroids which happen to have been in the right place at the right time to send many fragments toward Earth at the present moment in solar system history. On the other hand, observations of 243 Ida by the Galileo spacecraft found weathering of Ida's surface, and the reflection spectra of freshly exposed parts of the surface resembled that of OC meteorites, while the older regions matched the spectra of common S-type asteroids.

ABOUT NWA METEORITES

It is hard to pin down an exact time and place that triggered the Saharan deals Rush. We do know that the first meteorites to be discovered in the Sahara were found by local tribesmen and desert nomads. These people were often of Arabic, Moroccan, Berber, Bedouin, or Tuareg descent and some of them are intimately familiar with the vast deserts of Northwest Africa that are collectively called the Saharan Desert. Technically speaking, the Saharan desert stretches across the boundaries of several nations, including Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Sudan, Libya and Egypt. The majority of meteorites coming out of the deserts pass through Morocco and end up with the designation of "NWA" or "unclassified NWA" by the Nomenclature Committee (NonCom) of the Meteoritical Society. This formal nomenclature is widely used in the world of private collectors and dealers, and these meteorites are generally referred to as "NWA" regardless of where they originated in the Sahara.


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