For Sale IconNWA 7402 "Mystery Rock" Chondrite Meteorites for Sale

Location: Northwest Africa, exact location unknown.

Found: 2010?

Type: Ordinary chondrite, appears primitive.

Description: This rock is identical in every way I can tell, from thin section and hand specimen, to NWA 5717.

Link to NWA 5717 in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database.
A close up shot of polished NWA 5717 (top) next to NWA 7402. (Click to see a large image.) The same comparison, but a little farther away. A comparison of sanded, but unpolished NWA 5717 and NWA 7402. A comparison with the lighting adjusted to show iron and troilite.

Here is a preliminary assessment: “From these analyses, it is evident that the meteorite is an unequilibrated chondrite of petrologic type 3. It most closely resembles an ordinary chondrite, and based upon metal abundance would be classified as an L-type. However, fayalite content of olivine and large sulfide abundance is not consistent with an L classification, and I therefore would suggest that the meteorite is categorized as an ungrouped or anomalous UOC 3.0, S2, W1-W2.” More to come.

 

# NWA7402-1-6 # NWA7402-1-7 # NWA5717-2-1 # NWA7402-2-3 About Scale:  Each photo has a small one centimeter cube.  That's a little less than a half inch on a side.  The coin above is a US dime.
Weight: 1.6 gm Weight: 1.7 gm Weight: 2.1 gm Weight: 2.3 gm
Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice
Price: sold Price: sold Price: NFS Price: sold

# NWA7402-2-8 # NWA7402-3-2 # NWA7402-3-21 # NWA7402-3-3 # NWA7402-3-6
Weight: 2.8 gm Weight: 3.2 gm Weight: 3.2 gm Weight: 3.3 gm Weight: 3.6 gm
Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice
Price: sold Price: sold Price: sold Price: sold Price: sold

# NWA7402-7-3 # NWA7402-9-41 # NWA7402-10-3 # NWA7402-10-4 # NWA7402-12-4
Weight: 7.3 gm Weight: 9.4 gm Weight: 10.3 gm Weight: 10.4 gm Weight: 12.4 gm
Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice
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# NWA7402-10-6 # NWA7402-10-8 # NWA7402-12-4 # NWA7402-34-3
Weight: 10.6 gm Weight: 10.8 gm Weight: 12.4 gm Weight: 34.3 gm
Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: Part Slice Features: End
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