Description: IMCA # 3948, IMCA # 5051 INTERNATIONAL METEORITE COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION Authenticity GUARANTEED HELLO ALL OLD AND NEW GUESTS!!! We are a team of meteorite and fossil hunters.We search worldwide for new and known meteorites. Since 1995, we have mounted expeditions to Tsarev, Brahin, Kunya Urgench, Dronino, Markovka, Seymchan, Sikhote-Alin and many others in Russia and nearby. We have also collected many meteorites from North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United States.We have gathered samples of almost all types of known meteorites, including a large collection of lunar meteorites. We are on the world market since 2000, and on eBay since 2004. We ship worldwide from USA. We easy combine shipping. We accept different ways of payments, but PayPal is very preferred. As always we hope the best is in future. We'll make a very good business with all you our friends and partners. Please do not hesitate ask us any questions. Happy bidding! Cometshop team Northwest Africa 11828 (NWA 11828)Northwest AfricaFound: 2017Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia) History: Stones were acquired from a Moroccan dealer in 2017. Physical characteristics: A group of dark- and light-gray stones with no fusion crust. Petrography: (S. Demidova and D. Badyukov, Vernad): The meteorites are polymict breccias containing numerous mineral fragments and large rounded lithic clasts occuring within a brownish cryptocrystalline to glassy impact-melt matrix; the lithic clast population comprises impact-melt breccias, as well as cataclastic granulitic rocks of anorthositic, noritic, gabbro-noritic and troctolitic compositions; clasts of impact-melt breccias typically show breccia-in-breccia textures; glass fragments and rare spherules are present. Geochemistry: feldspar, An92-98; orthopyroxene, Wo2-5En60-81; clinopyroxene; Wo5-43En33-69, olivine, Fo22-93 (FeO/MnO = 85); accessory minerals include: ilmenite (2.6-6.2 wt % MgO), Cr-rich ulvöspinel, Ti,Al-rich chromite, silica, Ca-phosphate, armalcolite, baddeleyite, troilite, and abundant FeNi metal; the stones are moderately weathered; carbonate veins and Fe hydroxides are present. We are offering a complete fragment. The weight is 23.3 grams. SHIPPING: 1. Within USA will be $9.2. Out of USA will be $24. GOOD LUCK.
Price: 1164.99 USD
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
End Time: 2024-05-06T10:42:50.000Z
Shipping Cost: 9 USD
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