Description: My name is Ruben Garcia - aka MrMeteorite - and I’m a meteorite hunter, dealer, and collector. I began my meteorite adventures in 1998 and since then I have found many thousands of meteorites as well purchased and sold many thousands more. I’ve been featured in many books and magazines about meteorites. Publications like Sky and Telescope, Discover, Iguana, Meteorite Times, and even the latest book by O. Richard and Dorothy Norton, called “What’s so Mysterious about Meteorites?” I’ve also been featured in such TV shows as, Cash and Treasures, Meteorite Men, Nova Science NOW with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the United Stats of America - a program all about various statistics - with Sklar Brothers as hosts. Of course, I’ve also been the subject of newspaper articles all across the country as well as various NPR and BBC radio shows. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE You can bid with confidence since everything I sell is guaranteed to be exactly as listed. I include a handwritten (business card size) certificate of authenticity with each specimen. If you have a question, please feel free to send a message before bidding. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here’s information (from the Meteorite Bulletin) about this particular meteorite.Northwest Africa 11182 Basic information Name: Northwest Africa 11182 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: NWA 11182 Observed fall: No Year found: 2017 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 60 g Classification history: Meteoritical Bulletin: (2018) Lunar (feldsp. breccia) Recommended: Lunar (feldsp. breccia) Comments: Approved 28 Mar 2017 Writeup Northwest Africa 11182 (NWA 11182) (Northwest Africa) Purchased: 2017 Classification: Lunar (feldsp. breccia) History: Purchased by Ruben Garcia from Said Haddany in Tucson, 2017. Physical characteristics: Single stone, no fusion crust. A saw cut reveals a fragmental breccia with numerous white feldspathic clasts and fine-grained lithic fragments, set in a dark-gray ground mass. Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite consists of primarily feldspathic clasts, microgabbro clasts, and shock melt, some containing vesicles. Geochemistry: (C. Agee and B. Ha, UNM) pigeonite Fs28.9±1.6Wo11.8±7.0, Fe/Mn=56±3, n=2; high Ca pyroxene Fs22.7±11.7Wo28.6±5.9, Fe/Mn=52±2, n=2; two olivine grains were found: Fa16.9 and Fa34.6 with Fe/Mn=91 and 98 respectively; plagioclase An92.9±3.2Ab6.8±3.2Or0.3±0.1, n=4 Classification: Lunar feldspathic breccia Specimens: 12 g plus a probe mount on deposit at UNM, Ruben Garcia holds the main mass.
Price: 447 USD
Location: Peoria, Arizona
End Time: 2024-08-01T07:00:01.000Z
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