This is a 9.7 gram cut block of the 227 gram Northwest Africa 2126 Eucrite meteorite purchased in Erfoud, Morocco by A. and G. Hupe in 2003.
This is an excellent specimen of a very rare meteorite type. With a total known weight of 227 grams, not many collections will have an example of this polymict eucrite meteorite.
The stone has a "highly varied assortment of fine-to-coarse-grained (0.2 to 3.4 mm) cumulate, ophitic, subophitic, microgranular to granular eucrites, howardite xenoliths, and shock melt clasts; numerous, discontinuous melt veins up to 1.6 mm in thickness."
Shock level: S2-6; low degree of weathering.
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The most common achondrite meteorite type. The parent body is believed to be the asteroid 4 Vesta.
Eucrites are basalts, volcanic rocks of magmatic origin.
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Stock No.:
AEUC.1
