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Stony Iron Chondrite Meteorite Fragment Sahara Desert, Morocco
Weight:1.951 Grams
Measurements:15.15mm x 14.86mm x 7.37mm
Wind erosion and shifting sands unearth many buried meteorite specimens in the vast Sahara Desert of northwest Africa.
Meteorite falls occurred between 10,000 and 50,000 years ago. These stone chondrite meteorites have limited rust due to the dry desert conditions.
A chondrite is a stony meteorite that had been modified because of the melting of the parent body. It was formed when certain types of small grains and dust in the early solar system were not fully formed into primitive asteroids. It contains chondrules, which are free floating, molten droplets in space which are a millimeter in size. Chondrules are rich in silicate minerals called olivine and pyroxene. Over 86.2% of the meteorites that fell on the Earth’s surface were chondrites.
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