Description: My name is Ruben Garcia - aka MrMeteorite - and I’m a meteorite dealer/collector. I have bought and sold meteorites since 1998 and it’s been a wonderful ride. I’ve been featured in many books and magazines about meteorites, like Sky and Telescope, Discover, Iguana, Meteorite Times, and even the latest book by O. Richard and Dorothy Norton, called “What’s so Mysterious about Meteorites?” I’ve also appeared in such TV shows as, Meteorite Men, Nova Science NOW, Cash and Treasures, and the United Stats of America with Hosts “The Sklar Brothers”. Of course, I’ve also been the subject of newspapers all across the country and various NPR and BBC radio shows. I typically sell to high profile museums and universities all over the world. Everything I sell here is guaranteed just as if I were selling to a museum. Payment is due upon auctions end, unless you contact me and want to wait a few days to bid on more items in order to combine shipping. I include a business card sized label that describes each particular specimen! Payment is due upon auction end. Bid with confidence as all my auctions are guaranteed! About this particular meteorite from the Meteoritical BulletinNorthwest Africa 11474 Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11474 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 11474 Observed fall: No Year found: 2017 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 586 g Classification history: Meteoritical Bulletin: (2018) Lunar (feldsp. breccia) Recommended: Lunar (feldsp. breccia) Northwest Africa 11474 (NWA 11474) (Northwest Africa)Purchased: 2017 Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia) History: Purchased by Dustin Dickens and Mendy Ouzillou from a Mauritanian meteorite dealer May 10, 2017. Physical characteristics: Many identical appearing pieces, no fusion crust. A saw cut reveals a fragmental breccia with numerous white feldspathic clasts set in a dark-gray ground mass. Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite consists of primarily feldspathic clasts and shock melt with lesser amounts of fragmental pyroxene and olivine. Geochemistry: (C. Agee and B. Ha, UNM) olivine Fa19.3±0.6, Fe/Mn=86±1, n=2; pigeonite Fs24.8±0.5Wo4.3±0.3, Fe/Mn=60±9, n=2; high Ca pyroxene Fs27.4Wo34.4, Fe/Mn=58, n=1; plagioclase An97.8±0.7Ab2.0±0.6Or0.2±0.1, n=6; Shock melt (20 μm defocused electron beam, proxy for bulk meteorite composition): SiO2=44.4±0.8, TiO2=0.21±0.01, Al2O3=27.5±1.1, Cr2O3=0.07±0.02, MgO=5.7±1.4, FeO=4.2±1.3, MnO=0.07±0.02, CaO=16.2±0.5, Na2O=0.42±0.04, K2O=0.01±0.02 (all wt%), Fe/Mn=63±1, Mg#=70.1±1.1, n=3. Classification: Lunar feldspathic breccia Specimens: 20 g including a probe mount on deposit at UNM, Dustin Dickens and Mendy Ouzillou hold the main mass.
Price: 247.5 USD
Location: Peoria, Arizona
End Time: 2025-01-08T18:24:27.000Z
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