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Meteorites are named after where they fell or were found. So if a
meteorite fell near the town of Zagami Nigeria its name is Zagami. if it fell near
Ensisheim Germany its name is Ensisheim and if you buy a piece of that meteorite you buy
it using that name. Usually this naming system works well but over the past 5 or 6 years
people have discovered you can find meteorites relatively easy in deserts. This includes
poor Sahara desert nomads used to earning $200 a year who now all of a sudden can get tens
of thousands of dollars for a good meteorite find. So it seems that pretty much everybody
who lives in the Sahara are on the lookout for meteorites. Worthless weathering away rocks
strewn throughout the desert is now being saved for the world because crazy foreigners
like me will pay good money for these stones. But you don't know where the nomads found
these meteorites - so you cant give them a place name. Just from somewhere in the desert
which stretches for thousands of miles. But buyers and sellers congregate in Morocco and
that's where the meteorites changes hands. That is in North western Africa (Or NWA for
short). Since there are thousands of meteorites the very first NWA meteorite was named
NWA001 (Which incidentally NWA001 is a number from one of my meteorites - so I have been
involved in NWA meteorites for quite a while). The next meteorite is named NWA002 ect up
to how ever high the numbers will go - or until the 40,000 years of meteorite falls get
hunted out.
82,16 mm lang, 63,04 mm breed, 56,72 mm hoog
ebay, US $49,95 Ongeveer EUR 39,14, 19 juli 2010, amunre |