Description: My name is Ruben Garcia - aka MrMeteorite - and I’m a meteorite hunter, dealer, and collector. I began my meteorite adventures in 1998 and since then I have found many thousands of meteorites as well purchased and sold many thousands more. I’ve been featured in many books and magazines about meteorites. Publications like Sky and Telescope, Discover, Iguana, Meteorite Times, and even the latest book by O. Richard and Dorothy Norton, called “What’s so Mysterious about Meteorites?” I’ve also been featured in such TV shows as, Cash and Treasures, Meteorite Men, Nova Science NOW with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the United Stats of America - a program all about various statistics - with Sklar Brothers as hosts. Of course, I’ve also been the subject of newspaper articles all across the country as well as various NPR and BBC radio shows. You can bid with confidence since everything I sell is guaranteed to be exactly as listed. I include a handwritten (business card size) certificate of authenticity with each specimen. If you have a question, please feel free to send a message before bidding. Here’s information (from the Meteorite Bulletin) about this particular meteorite. Touat 008 Basic information Name: Touat 008 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 2023 Country: Algeria Mass: 2.96 kg Classification history: Meteoritical Bulletin: (2024) Lunar (troct. melt breccia) Recommended: Lunar (troct. melt breccia) This is 1 of 5 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (troct. melt breccia). Comments: Approved 15 Oct 2023 Writeup Touat 008 27.150°N , 01.042°W Adrar, Algeria Find: 2023 Feb Classification: Lunar (troct. melt breccia) History: Found in Algeria in February 2023 and purchased from the finder by Mbark Arjdal in Febriary and May 2023. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia dominated by mineral debris and some lithic clasts related to troctolitic lithologies. Mean grainsize is ~100 µm. Portions of the very fine grained matrix exhibit fluidal textures and contain sparse vesicles. Accessory phases include Cr-bearing pleonaste, troilite (commonly altered to secondary barite), low-Ti chromite and calcite (as patchy secondary alteration of plagioclase). Geochemistry: Anorthite (An95.9-96.8Or0.1-0.0, N = 4), olivine (Fa20.0-24.0, FeO/MnO = 74-89, N = 5), pigeonite (Fs19.4-19.9Wo5.0-6.9, FeO/MnO = 42-55, N = 4), subcalcic augite (Fs13.0Wo34.4, FeO/MnO = 40; Fs27.5Wo21.7, FeO/MnO = 51; Fs43.9Wo29.2, FeO/MnO = 63; N = 3). Classification: Lunar (troctolitiic melt breccia). This material is similar in many respects to Specimens: 45.3 g including a polished endcutt at UWB; remainder with Mr. M. Arjdal. Data from: Table 0 Line 0: State/Prov/County:Adrar Place of purchase:Algeria Date:2023 Feb Latitude:27.150°N Longitude:01.042°W Mass (g):2955 Pieces:many Class:Lunar (troct. melt breccia) Shock stage:high Weathering grade:low Fayalite (mol%):20.0-24.0 Ferrosilite (mol%):19.4-19.9; Wollastonite (mol%):5.0-6.9 Classifier:(A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Type spec mass (g):45.3 Type spec location:UWB Main mass:M. Arjdal Comments:Work name Arj ZM 850; submitted by A. Irving Institutions and collections
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End Time: 2024-11-11T18:52:30.000Z
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