Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
Mesosiderites are brecciated rocks containing silicate and metallic components, the silicates are mainly fragments of igneous rocks.
Writeup from MB 112:
Northwest Africa 15171 (NWA 15171)
Adrar, Algeria
Purchased: 2022
Classification: Mesosiderite
History: Bought by Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2022.
Physical characteristics: Many brown ireggular stones without fusion crust.
Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) The rock contains similar abundances of silicate minerals (pyroxene, and plagioclase), and metal and its weathering products. Silicate grain size is about 200 µm. Plagioclase and low-Ca pyroene dominate over Ca-pyroxene. Fe,Ni metal and troilite have been mostly replaced by terrestrial weathering products.
TARDA is a meteorite that fell in Morocco on August 25, 2020.
This meteorite has been classified as C2 ungrouped, a rare type of very primitive carbonaceous.
Tagish lake is a meteorite of the same type and sells for over 1000 euros per gram.
This meteorite is composed of many very small fragments, beautiful pieces with crusts are rare.
Isotopic analyses show that some pieces have values close to CI chondrites, and other pieces have Yamato (CY) values..
An important meteorite at the scientific level in the years to come.
Classification : (C. Agee, UNM; K. Ziegler, UNM; A. Irving, UWS; L. Garvie, ASU; D. Sheikh, FSU; P. Carpenter, WUSL; H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane, FSAC; M. Zolensky, JSC; P. Schmitt-Kopplin, HZM) Carbonaceous chondrite (C2-ungrouped). The bulk mineralogy is consistent with a petrologic grade 2, based on the predominance of smectite and serpentine together with the presence of anhydrous mafic silicates, AOA, and chondrules. The oxygen isotopes give a bimodal distribution of the δ18O-values, with one group having values somewhat like those of the CI chondrites, and the other group like values for the Yamato-type (CY) carbonaceous chondrites (King et al., 2019). However, Δ17O values are lower than those for CI and CY chondrites, and plot below the TFL. These isotopic values do not overlap with those of any established carbonaceous chondrite group, hence the ungrouped designation.
Specimens : 18.4 g including one polished thin section and one polished thick section at UWB; 21g and one polished thin section at UNM; 7 g provided by A. Aaronson and 6 g provided by J. Redelsperger at FSAC; 20 g at the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Environment, Rabat, Morocco provided by A. Aaronson; total 628 g with A. Aaronson (including 99 g, 82.4 g and 52.6 g stones); 540 g with M. Farmer and A. Karl, 260 g with J. Poblador; 480 g with D. Dickens; 145 g with M. Oulkouch; 146 g with J. Redelsperger; 31 g with B. Hoefnagels.
The Sudbury Basin is an enormous structure 62 km long, 32 km wide and 15 km deep. This basin was formed after the impact of a meteorite, certainly a comet of about 10 to 15 km in diameter, 1.849 billion years ago.
It is the 2nd largest impact in the world. The very important mining development in the area is directly related to this event.
