MARE METEORITICS
Northwest Africa 1929 History
Name: Northwest Africa 1929
Location: Morocco
Type: Achondrite Howardite
This meteorite is classified as a very rare achondrite, Howardite (AHOW). The Howardites are
very rare, being comprised of crushed up Eucrites and Diogenites and containing bits of other
meteorite types. It is basically the soil of an asteroid that has been churned up by meteorite
impacts and mixed with them. As you can see in the slices below, there are clasts of many
meteorites, including some that look to be carbonaceous! This meteorite was found in Morocco in 2003, and so far the total known weight is around 15 kilograms.
This meteorite was published in the Meteoritical Society Bulletin No. 90
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