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NWA 7397 is a Martian meteorite of the shergottite type, it was discovered in the mythical concentration zone of Chwichiya in Morocco.
The piece for sale is of great quality and has a fusion crust.
The price of Martian meteorites is only increasing, they have become rarer than lunar meteorites.
Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.
A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.
To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.
It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.
The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.
Writeup from MB 111:
Jdiriya 005 27°33’23.45″N, 10°31’29.87″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2018
Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)
History: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.
Physical characteristics: Several irregular dark pieces.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, CEREGE) Coarse-grained unbrecciated rock with granular texture made up primarily of enstatite (61 vol%) with typical grain size 5mm. No relict chondrules are observed. Other silicates are sodic plagioclase (3.6 vol%) with typical gain size 700 μm, and Si-rich glass. Opaque minerals (35 vol%), under the form of mm sized rounded grains, are all weathered except Zn-rich daubreelite that makes up 0.2 vol% of the meteorite.
Geochemistry: Enstatite Fs0.3±0.2Wo0.6±0.1, CaO 0.33±0.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An6.7±0.1Ab89.7±0.1Or3.6±0.1 (n=3). Daubréelite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.
Classification: Aubrite.
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.
Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.
A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.
To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.
It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.
The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.
Writeup from MB 111:
Jdiriya 005 27°33’23.45″N, 10°31’29.87″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2018
Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)
History: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.
Physical characteristics: Several irregular dark pieces.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, CEREGE) Coarse-grained unbrecciated rock with granular texture made up primarily of enstatite (61 vol%) with typical grain size 5mm. No relict chondrules are observed. Other silicates are sodic plagioclase (3.6 vol%) with typical gain size 700 μm, and Si-rich glass. Opaque minerals (35 vol%), under the form of mm sized rounded grains, are all weathered except Zn-rich daubreelite that makes up 0.2 vol% of the meteorite.
Geochemistry: Enstatite Fs0.3±0.2Wo0.6±0.1, CaO 0.33±0.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An6.7±0.1Ab89.7±0.1Or3.6±0.1 (n=3). Daubréelite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.
Classification: Aubrite.
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.
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Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.
A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.
To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.
It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.
The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.
Writeup from MB 111:
Jdiriya 005 27°33’23.45″N, 10°31’29.87″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2018
Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)
History: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.
Physical characteristics: Several irregular dark pieces.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, CEREGE) Coarse-grained unbrecciated rock with granular texture made up primarily of enstatite (61 vol%) with typical grain size 5mm. No relict chondrules are observed. Other silicates are sodic plagioclase (3.6 vol%) with typical gain size 700 μm, and Si-rich glass. Opaque minerals (35 vol%), under the form of mm sized rounded grains, are all weathered except Zn-rich daubreelite that makes up 0.2 vol% of the meteorite.
Geochemistry: Enstatite Fs0.3±0.2Wo0.6±0.1, CaO 0.33±0.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An6.7±0.1Ab89.7±0.1Or3.6±0.1 (n=3). Daubréelite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.
Classification: Aubrite.
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.
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Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.
A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.
To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.
It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.
The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.
Writeup from MB 111:
Jdiriya 005 27°33’23.45″N, 10°31’29.87″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2018
Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)
History: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.
Physical characteristics: Several irregular dark pieces.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, CEREGE) Coarse-grained unbrecciated rock with granular texture made up primarily of enstatite (61 vol%) with typical grain size 5mm. No relict chondrules are observed. Other silicates are sodic plagioclase (3.6 vol%) with typical gain size 700 μm, and Si-rich glass. Opaque minerals (35 vol%), under the form of mm sized rounded grains, are all weathered except Zn-rich daubreelite that makes up 0.2 vol% of the meteorite.
Geochemistry: Enstatite Fs0.3±0.2Wo0.6±0.1, CaO 0.33±0.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An6.7±0.1Ab89.7±0.1Or3.6±0.1 (n=3). Daubréelite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.
Classification: Aubrite.
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.
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Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.
A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.
To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.
It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.
The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.
Writeup from MB 111:
Jdiriya 005 27°33’23.45″N, 10°31’29.87″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2018
Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)
History: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.
Physical characteristics: Several irregular dark pieces.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, CEREGE) Coarse-grained unbrecciated rock with granular texture made up primarily of enstatite (61 vol%) with typical grain size 5mm. No relict chondrules are observed. Other silicates are sodic plagioclase (3.6 vol%) with typical gain size 700 μm, and Si-rich glass. Opaque minerals (35 vol%), under the form of mm sized rounded grains, are all weathered except Zn-rich daubreelite that makes up 0.2 vol% of the meteorite.
Geochemistry: Enstatite Fs0.3±0.2Wo0.6±0.1, CaO 0.33±0.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An6.7±0.1Ab89.7±0.1Or3.6±0.1 (n=3). Daubréelite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.
Classification: Aubrite.
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.
Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.
A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.
To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.
It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.
The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.
Writeup from MB 111:
Jdiriya 005 27°33’23.45″N, 10°31’29.87″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2018
Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)
History: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.
Physical characteristics: Several irregular dark pieces.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, CEREGE) Coarse-grained unbrecciated rock with granular texture made up primarily of enstatite (61 vol%) with typical grain size 5mm. No relict chondrules are observed. Other silicates are sodic plagioclase (3.6 vol%) with typical gain size 700 μm, and Si-rich glass. Opaque minerals (35 vol%), under the form of mm sized rounded grains, are all weathered except Zn-rich daubreelite that makes up 0.2 vol% of the meteorite.
Geochemistry: Enstatite Fs0.3±0.2Wo0.6±0.1, CaO 0.33±0.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An6.7±0.1Ab89.7±0.1Or3.6±0.1 (n=3). Daubréelite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.
Classification: Aubrite.
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.
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Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.
A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.
To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.
It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.
The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.
Writeup from MB 111:
Jdiriya 005 27°33’23.45″N, 10°31’29.87″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2018
Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)
History: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.
Physical characteristics: Several irregular dark pieces.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, CEREGE) Coarse-grained unbrecciated rock with granular texture made up primarily of enstatite (61 vol%) with typical grain size 5mm. No relict chondrules are observed. Other silicates are sodic plagioclase (3.6 vol%) with typical gain size 700 μm, and Si-rich glass. Opaque minerals (35 vol%), under the form of mm sized rounded grains, are all weathered except Zn-rich daubreelite that makes up 0.2 vol% of the meteorite.
Geochemistry: Enstatite Fs0.3±0.2Wo0.6±0.1, CaO 0.33±0.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An6.7±0.1Ab89.7±0.1Or3.6±0.1 (n=3). Daubréelite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.
Classification: Aubrite.
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002 is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it was formed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Erg Chech 002is an achondrite type meteorite found in Algeria in 2020.
The particularity of this meteorite is that it does not resemble any meteorite known to date and that we know nothing of the parent body from which it came.
This meteorite is dated 4.565 billion years (older than our Earth), it wasformed at the beginning of the solar system.
It is the oldest magmatic rock in the solar system known to date !
This meteorite also has the particularity to have large green crystals of pyroxene.
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Lahmada 048 is an achondrite ureilite meteorite of only 59 grams discovered in the Western Sahara in a concentration area called Lahmada.
It was discovered on September 23, 2020 by Brahim Elguirah.
Lahmada 048 certainly contains diamonds in view of the difficulties to cut it.
The diamonds, which are rarely larger than a few micrometers in diameter, are probably the result of high-pressure shock waves produced by the collision of the parent body of the ureilites with other asteroids.
Writeup from MB 110 :
Lahmada 048 27°24’20.78″N, 9°51’13.07″W
Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara
Find: 2020 Sep 23
Classification: Ureilite
History: The meteorite was found by Brahim Elguirah. The meteorite was bought by Jean Redelsperger from Zaid Oualguirah in 2020.
Physical characteristics: A single dark brown stone
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Aggregate of blocky olivine grains (grain size 800 µm) with reduced margins. Metal, originally present along olivine rims, is almost entirely replaced by terrestrial weathering products. Contains a significant amount of carbon material, likely diamonds in view of the extreme difficulty to saw the rock.
Geochemistry: Olivine Fa21.9±0.4, CaO 0.36±0.02 wt%, CrO3 0.65±0.02, FeO/MnO = 53.4±7.9 (n=4). Olivine rim Fa5.1 (n=1).
Classification: Ureilite
Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Mais mass with Jean Redelsperger.