A new HED achondrite from Ksar Jdid, Errachidia, Morocco: mineralogical and compositional data

On September 1st , 2023, three meteorite fragments for a total mass of 1.25 kg were found by the meteor- ite hunter Mr. Ali Lamghari during a routinary meteorite searching in a location between Erfoud and Errachidia about 10 km far from the village Ksar Jdid, Moroccan Sahara. The main mass is partially covered by a black, shiny fusion crust (Figure 1). A cut surface revealed a pale grey achondritic brecciated texture, with large holocristalline diogenitic aggregates set in a fine-grained eucritic groundmass. The type specimen, weighing 21 g (Inv. # I-3741), and one thin section are deposited at the Museo “La Specola”- SMA, University of Florence, Italy; one polished thin section and a 43-g chip are deposited at the University Museum of Meteorites, Agadir, Morocco. Ali Lamghari owns the main mass. The meteorite has been submitted for approval to the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society under the name Errachidia 009.