Natural History - Diogenite NWA 4664 Meteorite Slice

FOUND 2006 A.D.

2 in. (3 7/8 x 3 in.) (10.2 grams, 53 mm (58.6 grams total, 99 x 75 mm including case)).

A cut slice of diogenite, an igneous rock rich in the magnesium- and iron-rich silicate orthopyroxene, recorded as: Northwest Africa 4664; displayed in a Swiss membrane box, inked note 'NWA 4664' to one side. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From Algeria.
Ex Mile High Meteorites, U.S.A.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Accompanied by an original identification card.

Footnotes

Vesta is the second largest asteroid and the only large one covered with basalt; the fine-grained volcanic rock makes up the dark areas of the Moon and the huge shield volcanoes on Mars. Three groups of achondrites (igneous meteorites) are widely thought to have come from Vesta; these are the HED meteorites: Howardites, Eucrites and Diogenites.

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