Lot 354
Four Meteorite Sections From Four Planetary Bodies. There are only four planetary bodies in our solar system represented by meteorites, the Moon, Mars, Vesta and possibly Mercury. This unusual collection housed in a 12 x 8 inch Riker mount consists of one small meteorite section from each of these planetary bodies that can be held in hand and examined with some detail. The size of the specimens was cut to make the collection affordable as meteorites from the Moon, Mars and Mercury cost hundreds to several thousand dollars per gram. The following meteorites are represented and identified.
NWA 3141 2.2 grams Basaltic Eucrite from Vesta
Dhofar 019 .223 grams Martian Shergotite from Mars
NWA 5000 .196 grams Breccia from the Lunar Highlands
NWA 2999 .278 grams Angrite possibly from Mercury
Since no rocks have been examined from Mercury it cannot be known for certain that Angrites come from Mercury but it is known from their oxygen isotopes that they formed on a large planetary body and they contain almost no sodium which indicates that they formed in a highly refractory planet that was much closer to the Sun than Earth which leaves Mercury as the likely source since Venus has such a dense atmosphere and strong gravity.
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Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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