Meteorites, Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Agoudal meteorite
Agoudal Iron
Metal sculpted by atmospheric entry.
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- Epoch
- Before life began
- Age
- ≈ 4.5 billion years
- Origin
- Atlas Mountains, Morocco
- Size
- 34 × 6.6 × 44 cm
- Weight
- 323.5 g
- Classification
- Iron meteorite (Agoudal)
- Ref.
- R–0624
The fragment weighs 323.5 grams. The cavities and flows on its surface were etched by incandescent air: during atmospheric entry the surface melts unevenly, and ablation carves curved projections and hollows.
Agoudal is an iron meteorite named after a Moroccan village in the High Atlas. Its fragments are scattered across mountain valleys for tens of kilometres; the mass whose photograph is set into the frame was found in the same strewn field.
The meteorite iron formed in the core of a shattered protoplanet and is older than any terrestrial rock: this material is about four and a half billion years old.
As found
The main mass of Agoudal lay in the stony foothills of the High Atlas. The rusty crust and bluish-black metal in the fractures are traces of millennia beneath the Moroccan sun.