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Taza Iron Meteorite - Official Name Northwest Africa 859 Find - 2001 Northwest Africa Iron Ungrouped Taza (NWA 859) Iron Meteorite Taza officially known as NWA 859 is a nickel iron meteorite classified as a Plessitic Octahedrite, Ungrouped. It was found in Morocco in 2001. Many of the specimens of this meteorite are oriented in shape from falling through the atmosphere in a stable flight. One surface ablated away and melted material flowed to the back and cooled there leaving flow lines and melted lips. Most pieces of this meteorite are small with hundreds having been recovered. The main mass however is a 75.3 kg piece. Taza Meteorite (NWA 859)
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Our good friends Geoffrey Notkin and Steve Arnold are starring in another TV Show, this time for The Science Channel. For more information please read the press release below and see their METEORITE MEN website. SCIENCE CHANNEL’S METEORITE MEN TAKES VIEWERS ON QUEST FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL T... New Meteor Crater Book For Sale Jim has just completed his third and much expanded edition of James Tobin’s history of the first hundred years of investigations at Meteor Crater. Jim has narrative tours of the sites on the crater rim and slopes, as well as a na... Hunting Meteorites in Franconia In late October you may have noticed that we put up a notice on our meteorites-for-sale.com site that we would be out of town for a week. We had not spent more that a day here or there hunting mete... |
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