NWA 10049 Lunar Meteorites for Sale
Location: Sahara Desert, exact location unknown.
Found: 2014.
Classification: Lunar (feldspathic regolith breccia)
Description: History: 56g mass purchased by Eric Twelker from Habib Naji in Morocco, 2014. Physical: Single stone. Saw-cut shows white feldspathic clasts and a few dark colored clasts set in a dark gray matrix. There a few, very small, metal grains visible. Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite is a fine-grained lunar feldspathic regolith breccia with numerous agglutinates, shock melt zones and impact melt clasts present. Many of the agglutinates and melt veins are heavily vesiculated. There are also many fragmental feldspar grains and some microgabbros present, a few of these fragments are up to several mm in size. Accessory Fe-Ni metal, Fe-sulfide, chromite, and ilmenite are present. Weathering products iron oxide, barite, and calcite were detected. Geochem: (C. Agee and N. Muttik, UNM) olivine Fa31.5±4.9, Fe/Mn=99±9, n=29; forsterite Fa5.8, Fe/Mn=87, n=1; pigeonite Fs26.6±5.5Wo6.0±3.8, Fe/Mn=55±4, n=10; augite Fs22.7±8.2Wo33.1±6.9, Fe/Mn=52±8, n=14; anorthite plagioclase An94.2±2.6Ab5.4±2.5Or0.3±0.2, n=10; labradorite plagioclase An56.3Ab37.1Or6.6, n=1; Shock melt (20 μm defocused electron beam, proxy for bulk meteorite composition): SiO2=44.5±0.8, TiO2=0.25±0.08, Al2O3=31.3±1.9, Cr2O3=0.07±0.01, MgO=3.2±1.8, FeO=3.0±0.4, MnO=0.04±0.02, CaO=17.4±0.4, NiO=0.00±0.00, Na2O=0.55±0.09, K2O=0.07±0.01 (all wt%), n=3.
Link to Meteoritical Bulletin Database.
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| # NWA10049-159 | # NWA10049-198 | #NWA10049-257 | #NWA10049-623 | About Scale: Each photo has a small one centimeter cube. That's a little less than a half inch on a side. The coin above is a US dime. |
| Weight: 0.159 gm | Weight: 0.198gm | Weight: 0.257 gm | Weight: 0.623 gm | |
| Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | |
| Price: sold | Price: sold | sold | sold |
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| # NWA10049-817 | # NWA10049-1-426 | # NWA10049-1-480 | #NWA10049-1-712 | #NWA10049-1-943 |
| Weight: 0.817 gm | Weight: 1.426 gm | Weight: 1.480 gm | Weight: 1.712 gm | Weight: 1.943 gm |
| Features: Part slice, 3.3mm thick | Features: Part slice | Features: End | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice |
| Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold | sold | sold |
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| # NWA10049-2-325 | # NWA10049-2-419 | # NWA10049-3-153 | #NWA10049-12-882 |
| Weight: 2.325 gm | Weight: 2.419 gm | Weight: 3.153 gm | Weight: 12.882 gm |
| Features: Part slice, 3.3mm thick | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: End |
| Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold | $9000 |
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