NWA 8047, CM1

We had just missed out on another specimen from this find; I messaged the seller as soon as I saw his photo of a carbonaceous chondrite with a nearly chondrule-free interior…but a meteorite dealer had beaten me to the punch.  I bothered the seller, asked around, and this ~17 gram stone turned up within a week, and a second followed.  CM1’s are remarkably rare, with only a few — three — known outside of Antarctica as of 2020, including this find.  This particular CM1 is quite fresh, with fusion crust rivaling that of a witnessed fall.  It exhibits odd ~lamellar fractures, also seen in other CM1s.

16.69 gram broken individual and 12.51 gram oriented individual.