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164.43 grams. Approximately 6 cm across the cut face.   LL5

TKW 398 grams. Fall not observed. Purchased October 2002 in Safsaf.

James writes:

NWA 1794 is a really interesting meteorite. It has a fresh fusion crust with regmaglypts and the crust is quite smooth and very black. The Met Bulletin Database has nothing in the way of comments on this meteorite so I will note some observations.

It is a very cool breccia with several different parent rocks contributing clasts. As an LL there is little visible metal and almost all visible metal is in tiny pinprick size specks. Both of the pictures here do show the single larger metal grain. However, some of the clasts are completely free of any visible metal. Though all the metal is tiny it is easy to see that it still varies in size and density of specks from clast type to clast type.

Maybe the most interesting feature of this meteorite is the abundance of troilite. I have never seen another meteorite with as much of this bronze colored mineral. In the detail picture that cover about 30% of the area of the cut face there are numerous troilite inclusions.

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