NWA 3197, Anomalous Howardite
This odd meteorite is a mix of a few different things: the typical HED eucritic and diogenitic material make up most of …
NWA 5363/5400, Ungrouped Achondrite
This meteorite is a primitive achondrite. It retained ~10% metal, some sulfides, and hasn’t changed much since it was a chondrite. It …
NWA 3159/6964, Eucritic Impact Melt
This is a stunning meteorite. It is comprised of a mess of light eucritic clasts surrounded by rivers of vesicular black melt. …
NWA 5744, Lunar Troctolite
This stone is one of many pairings to NWA 5744 & others. It is a granulitic, troctolitic breccia: -a “troctolite” is a …
NWA 6470, Anorthositic Regolith Breccia
This wonderful meteorite is comprised mostly of vitrified 4.3 billion year old Lunar highlands rock. It’s a complex breccia with at least …
NWA 6497, Polymict Eucrite
This stone came already-cut from a dealer. It weighs 44.6 grams and is a brecciated eucrite. Of note — some clasts were …
NWA 7022, Lunar Feldspathic Breccia
The fusion-crusted and oriented ~385 gram main mass of Northwest Africa 7022 displays the meteorite’s two lithologies beautifully. The meteorite is a …
NWA 7034, Martian Regolith Breccia
This is a unique meteorite for a number of reasons. In a nutshell: 1) At ~4.4 billion years old, it is either …
NWA 7799, Ureilite
This stone is a pretty one, destined to remain provisional and unclassified. Fortunately, the fusion crust and thinly crusted break reveal the …
NWA 7809, Enstatite Achondrite
This meteorite was initially classified as an aubrite, but Udry et al. took a closer look at this stone and a few …