No. 95718711

UREILITE - Primitive Achondrite - (With nano diamonds!) Complete piece. WITHOUT RESERVE PRICE. - 12.2 g
No. 95718711

UREILITE - Primitive Achondrite - (With nano diamonds!) Complete piece. WITHOUT RESERVE PRICE. - 12.2 g
The ureilite is a rare type of stony meteorite that has a unique mineralogical composition very different from that of other stony meteorites. This type of dark gray or brown meteorite is named after the village Novy Urey, Republic of Mordovia in Russia, where a meteorite of this type fell on September 4, 1886. Ureilites are classified as primitive achondrite type meteorites, which are a very rare and scarce sub-group within meteorites.
The anecdote tells how some farm workers saw the meteorite fall, picked it up, smashed it, and ate some fragments. The curious thing is that ureilites are known to be the hardest meteorites in the world, because they contain small diamonds inside, making them almost impossible to cut, even when using diamond wire for such work.
They are composed of olivine (50-75%) and pyroxene (14-35%) and very small amounts of Fe and Ni metals. Among the crystals of these minerals, in the matrix, noble gases and carbon (sometimes in the form of diamond, which is an indicator of high pressures) are found. The presence of diamonds has been interpreted as the result of the metamorphosis of graphite.
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