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

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