Camel herder Mohamed Bagouma reckons it was about a decade ago that he started looking for meteorites. “To me it was strange,” said Bagouma…“We had thought the rocks were useless.”
-Washington Post, April 15, 2025, On the hunt for meteorites in the far reaches of the Sahara
We found much of terrestrial geological note in the Western Desert. Petrified wood. Oyster banks. Iron oolites. Yardangs and drumlins. But extraplanetary, never, and a good thing, too. Rujum, Meteorites. Rujam, Tombstones. From the verb Rajama, To Stone, or To Curse, Damn, Revile.