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NWA 5885 AUBRITE Meteorite Endcut, Achondrite, COA. Very Low TKW!

$ 24.28

Availability: 98 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Morocco

    Description

    NWA 5885 Aubrite end cut, very rare meteorite!
    Weight: 0.73g
    VERY low Total Known Weight, only 98g!
    Comes with a certificate of authenticity.
    I can combine shipping.
    A recent paper proposes that aubrites (a class of similar meteorites like this one), are samples of ancient Mercury, parts of its mantle that were blasted off in a massive collision, removing a third of its mass.  Some of the material ended up in the asteroid belt, pushed by the intense solar winds or that epoch, forming the E-type asteroids. And like many other asteroids, various gravitational resonances with Jupiter eventually flung this material to Earth, a time capsule from the formative years of our solar system. Although no samples have been returned from Mercury, meteorites, such as aubrites, can be studied as mercurian analogues.
    Name: Northwest Africa 5885. This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
    Abbreviation: NWA 5885
    Year found: 2009
    Country: (Northwest Africa)
    This is 1 of 78 approved meteorites classified as Aubrite.