Lot 1000
Three Types of Vesta Meteorites. Vesta is a very large asteroid with a diameter of over 326 miles and has a gigantic impact crater at its South Pole that is so deep that it exposes the asteroid's interior. Vesta has been identified, using a spectograph,as the source for the three types of meteorites: NWA 2126 is a brecciated cumulate Eucrite that formed from the impact of a large asteroid that hit Vesta. This 26 x 25 mm slice weighs 4.9 grams and shows a mixture of the surface rocks from Vesta with white,gray light and dark brown inclusions. The second meteorite type is called Howardite and comes from a deeper part of the impact crater. NWA 3117 is a 18 x 18 mm fragment weighing 3.4 grams with a light gray matrix color with some white and dark gray inclusions. The third type of meteorite is called a Diogenite which comes from deeper inside the huge impact crater. This slice of NWA 5480 is 25 x 21 mm weighing 4.5 grams showing several different colored inclusions in a light gray matrix. These three important meteorite specimens tell a story about an event that happened billions of years ago at the south pole. In a 8x 6" Riker mount. $525 - 650
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