{"id":62597,"date":"2022-09-03T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=62597"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:09:12","slug":"jdiriya-005-7-aubrite-1-g","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/product\/jdiriya-005-7-aubrite-1-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Jdiriya 005 #7 Aubrite &#8211; 1 g"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"cf4 ff1 fs36\">Endcut.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf3 ff1 fs36\">Rare and nice piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf4 ff1 fs36\">Comes with certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jdiriya 005 is an Aubrite meteorite of only 35.6 grams, discovered by Brahim Ikken in 2018 in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>A new theory carried by a French scientific team talks about the possibility of a link between the Aubrites and the planet Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>To date only 76 such meteorites have been classified.<\/p>\n<p>It is a rare type of meteorite, difficult to find on the market.<\/p>\n<p>The name Aubrites is linked to the fall of a meteorite in Aubres, France in 1836. They are composed mainly of orthopyroxene to enstatite.<\/p>\n<div id=\"writeup\">\n<p><big><u>Writeup from MB 111:<\/u><\/big><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MBNormal\"><strong>Jdiriya 005<\/strong> 27\u00b033\u201923.45&#8243;N, 10\u00b031\u201929.87&#8243;W<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBIndent\">Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBIndent\">Find: 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBIndent\">Classification: Enstatite achondrite (Aubrite)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBNormal\"><strong>History<\/strong>: Found by Brahim Ikken in 2018. Bought By Jean Redelsperger from Mohamed Elguirah in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBNormal\"><strong>Physical characteristics<\/strong>: Several irregular dark pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBNormal\"><strong>Petrography<\/strong>: (J. Gattacceca, B. Devouard, <i>CEREGE<\/i>) 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 \u03bcm, 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBNormal\"><strong>Geochemistry<\/strong>: Enstatite Fs<sub>0.3\u00b10.2<\/sub>Wo<sub>0.6\u00b10.1<\/sub>, CaO 0.33\u00b10.06 (n=6). Plagioclase An<sub>6.7\u00b10.1<\/sub>Ab<sub>89.7\u00b10.1<\/sub>Or<sub>3.6\u00b10.1 <\/sub>(n=3). Daubr\u00e9elite contains up to 6 wt% Zn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBNormal\"><strong>Classification<\/strong>: Aubrite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MBNormal\"><strong><i>Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE.<\/i><\/strong> Main mass with Jean Redelsperger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62599,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[542,560],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62597","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-achondrites-en","7":"product_cat-aubrites","8":"product_shipping_class-petits-articles-en","9":"description-off","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"sold-individually","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/62597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=62597"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=62597"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allmeteorite.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=62597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}