Dar al Gani 779 Howardite Achondrite Meteorites for Sale

Basic Information

Location:       Dar al Gani, Sahara, Libya  26º59.543'N 16º26.250'E
Found: 1999 November 20
Total Know weight: 18.8kg
Type: Achondrite (howardite)
Description: A stone weighing ~15 kg plus many fragments within a few hundred meters (total mass, 18.8 kg) were found in the Dar al Gani region. Mineralogy and classification (J. Otto and A. Ruh, Frei): a polymict breccia with fragmental matrix dominated by orthopyroxene, and with clasts of basaltic and cumulate eucrite, diogenite, anorthosite, porphyritic melt rock, and glassy fragments; orthopyroxene, Fs14.3-62.6Wo0.9-11.4, average, Fs32.1Wo3.4, with FeO/MnO = 31; plagioclase, An74.6-96.3 (average, An89.5) Or0.5; shock stage, S2; weathering grade, W1. (from Meteoritical Bulletin 84)

I have more of this, I just need to cut it.

Cube is one centimeter.

#DAG779-8	#DAG779-1-4	#DAG779-1-6
Weight: 0.8 gm	Weight: 1.4 gm	Weight: 1.6 gm
Features: part slice.	Features: part slice.	Features: part slice.
sold	Price: sold	Price: sold

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