
Price 2300€ |
Northwest Africa 14481 (NWA 14481)
(Northwest Africa)
Purchased: 2021
Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)
History: The meteorite was purchased in 2021 from a meteorite dealer in Morocco.
Physical characteristics: Dark grayish rock almost completely covered with fresh fusion crust.
Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with sharply defined, mostly flattened, and well packed chondrules (apparent mean diameter about 0.6 mm). The fine-grained matrix contains sulfides and FeNi metal.