| Price : 1900€ |
Northwest Africa 16466 (NWA 16466)
(Northwest Africa)
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Ordinary chondrite (H4-6)
History: The meteorite was purchased from a dealer in Morocco.
Physical characteristics: Large fragment whose surface is covered by about 70% with fresh black fusion crust.
Petrography: Chondritic breccia composed of up to 2 cm sized mostly angular type 4 fragments set in type 6 matrix. Type 4 fragments contain well-defined mostly rounded, partly packed chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.3 mm) and are devoid of secondary plagioclase. Plagioclas grains size in type 6 matrix is about 60 µm
