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Taoussat-n-Amouzzour 001 - OC Meteorite L3.2 Polished Slice with Crust - 19.77g
Taoussat-n-Amouzzour 001 - OC Meteorite L3.2 Polished Slice with Crust - 19.77g
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This listing is for the sliced fragment you see in the photos. This is a gorgeous L with an incredible matrix! It comes with Riker box and a COA.
Weight - 19.77 grams
Measurements - 79x50x3 Millimeters
Below is the classification information:
Taoussat-n-Amouzzour 001 (TnA 001) 17.27508, 8.37378
Agadez, Niger
Find, possible fall: 2022 Dec 15
Classification: Ordinary chondrite (L3)
History: On December 15, 2022, at around 7 p.m. local people at wadi Amdriga and the village of Tafragah, Niger observed a fireball east of Arlit. Several days later, many fresh, partially to completely crusted stones were found together by shepherds near a dry river bed west of Massif de Taghouaji at 17°16’30.288"N, 8°22’25.606"E. In March, 2023 Marcin Cimala purchased 5250 g and Ziyao Wang 1133 g of the material.
Physical characteristics: All rocks show a fresh grayish interior with recognizable chondrules and are partly to completely covered with black fusion crust.
Petrography: The meteorite shows a chondritic texture with well-defined, mostly rounded, and packed chondrules (mean diameter: 586±290 µm, n=97) in a fine-grained dark grayish matrix that contains sulfides and FeNi metal.
