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In 2020, hunters looking for pieces of Erg Chech 002 discovered several new rocks in the north of Mali. A consortium of collectors purchased all 11.6 kg of this material. The main mass is 3.5 kgs. It is classified as a diogenite, NWA 14056. The stones have an orange to green color and a heterogeneous texture with abundant pyroxenes, some of which display light refraction from their surface. 

Diogenites are a rare type of meteorite that comes from Asteroid Vesta. It is in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. It orbits the Sun with a period of 3.6 Earth years and has a diameter of 525 kilometres. A great impact occurred in the South hemisphere of Vesta less than 1 billion years ago, ejecting rocks from the asteroid into space. Eventually some of these rocks fell on Earth. Due to the lack of chondrules in this type of meteorites, they are called achondrites in contraposition to chondrites.

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Erg Chech area, Mali

Diogenite meteorite. NWA 14056. From asteroid Vesta - 67.9 g

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Period

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

Paleogene, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.03 million years)

2025

1990-2000

Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

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Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

Neogene (23.03 - 2.58 million years)

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Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 million years)

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Popular in Minerals & Meteorites

4221 objects

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