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Alnif   contributed by Anne Black, IMCA 2356   MetBul Link

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8.349 grams.   H5

TKW 8 kg. Fall not observed. Purchased 1992, Morocco.

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An 8 kg stone was purchased in 1992 April by Alain Carion in a mineral shop in Risani, Morocco. The seller said it had been collected with trilobites near Oum-Jrane, ~60 km south of Alnif.


 


Anne writes:
One of the very first meteorites Alain Carion bought in Morocco.


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John Divelbiss
 8/26/2020 9:25:38 PM
Anne, I know your story and I'm glad you stated it here for those who don't know how you entered the arena for all things meteorites by helping a friend write about his passion.
Anne Black
 8/26/2020 4:18:41 PM
Alain's "pseudo-english"? :-))) That is why I started to work with him in the late 80s during the Denver Show, so I could translate. Then later I translate some articles he had written for Meteorite Magazine, then I helped him in Tucson, then I started IMPACTIKA on my own, then.......... the rest is history.
John Divelbiss
 8/26/2020 3:43:23 PM
some of my most favorite meteorite talks were brief but fun ones with Alain at a few shows. His pseudo-English made it fun, my nothing-like-French would NOT have. :/
Bernd Pauli
 8/26/2020 3:39:49 PM
Yes, Anne, just like Zagora. I got my 15.5 gr Zagora etched endpiece from Walter Zeitschel in 1988!
Anne Black
 8/26/2020 3:23:05 PM
Yes, John, one of the very early ones, just like Zagora. At that time Alain Carion was going to Morocco quite often to buy minerals and fossils, and then one day that merchant in the souks of Rissani showed him a black rock and asked him what it was. Of course Alain Carion knew immediately that it was a meteorite and went on to explain what meteorites were, how to recognize them. And you know the rest of the story.
John Divelbiss
 8/26/2020 8:19:29 AM
"from the last century!!" my new sales pitch... thanks Anne for showing us some early Morocco history with meteorites
 

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