Registry:	AH019
Mineral Name:	NWA 5000
Source:	Sahara
Mineral Size:	10.70g
Sale Price:	Make Offer
Description:

 

History: Found in July 2007 in southern Morocco and provided to Adam Hupé in October 2007.

 

Physical characteristics: A single, large cuboidal stone (11.528 kg) with approximate dimensions 27 cm × 24 cm × 20 cm. One side (which appears to have been embedded downward in light brown mud) has preserved regmaglypts and is partially covered by translucent, pale greenish fusion crust with fine contraction cracks. Abundant large beige to white, coarse-grained clasts up to 8 cm across (some of which have been eroded out on exterior surfaces of the stone, likely by eolian sand blasting) and sparse black, vitreous clasts up to 2 cm across (containing irregular small white inclusions) are set in a dark gray to black, partially glassy breccia matrix. One partially eroded clast exposed on an exterior surface contains both the coarse grained beige lithology and the more resistant black, vitreous lithology in sharp contact.

Classification: Achondrite (lunar, feldspathic breccia).

The largest slice still available to collectors. Will come with a complete portfolio of information.

Smaller specimens are also available, please ask.