No. 9274515
Mars Meteorite - NWA 10628 - Achondrite - Shergottite - SNC Groupe - Aesthetically fine completely Individual - 0.75 x 0.50 cm - 0.130 g - 1.60 x 1.45 cm - 3.360 g (2)
No. 9274515
Mars Meteorite - NWA 10628 - Achondrite - Shergottite - SNC Groupe - Aesthetically fine completely Individual - 0.75 x 0.50 cm - 0.130 g - 1.60 x 1.45 cm - 3.360 g (2)
Original Mars Meteorite NWA 10628 Shergottite from Northwest Africa, Tindouf desert.
Here we offer a rare Mars - Shergottite. Aesthetically fine completely INDIVIDUAL from NWA 10628, with beautiful brown fersh enamelled fusion cust. The rare SNC group of achondrites contains the classifications. Shergottite, Nakhlite, Chassignite and the single specimen (ALH84001) Orthopyroxenite.
Description:
• Mars Meteorite Shergottite
• Meteorite: NWA 10628 Individual
• Weight 3.360 g
• Size: 1.60 x 1.45 x 0.95 cm
• Weight 0.130 g
• Size: 0.75 x 0.50 x 0.25 cm
• Delivery with authenticity certificate
• Delivery in a collector box
Reported: Meteoritical Bulletin Database 105, 2016
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=63155
NWA 10628
Country: Tindouf, Algeria
Find: 2014
Class: Martian meteorite (Shergottite)
Main mass: only 24.1 g
History:
Four fragments were purchased from an anonymous Moroccan dealer in 2015 totaling 24.1 g.
Physical characteristics: The meteorites have a light-brownish appearance with minor patches of fusion crust on the surface.
Petrography: (A. Bischoff, IfP). The rock is coarse-grained and consists of mm-sized grains of pyroxene (intergrowth of low-Ca- and Ca-pyroxene; approximately 70 vol%) and interstitial plagioclase/maskelynite grains (~30 vol%, 0.3-1.0 mm). Plagioclase is mostly transformed to maskelynite, but many grains are still crystalline at least at their edges (in contact to pyroxene).
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