NWA 2629

This rare meteorite was found in Northwest Africa (Algeria or Morocco) in 2004. I bought it at the Munich show in October 2004 from a Moroccan dealer. It is an Olivine Diogenite, one of the rarest types in the world! The total weight of this meteorite was only 244 grams.

Here is the exact write-up as given to me by the classifying scientists:

NWA 2629
Yellowish-green to brown, friable olivine diogenite. with orthopyroxene
grains up to 21 mm in size; rare olivine grains. Unzoned olivine, Fa28.0;
FeO/MgO = 44; orthopyroxene, Fs23.4Wo1.5; FeO/MnO = 24.9; chromite, cr# =
87; mg# = 19.4. Also contains minor metal (Ni = 0.29 wt %; Co = 0.59 wt %)
and troilite. No plagioclase was observed. Shock level is S2-3; lightly to
moderately weathered. Likely paired with NWA 1877.

This is one rare little meteorite.

NWA 2629 1: 9.96 gram fragment. $300.00

NWA 2629 2: 7.00 gram fragment.  $210.00

NWA 2629 3: 9.26 gram fragment. $278.00

NWA 2629 4: 10.30 gram fragment. $310.00

NWA 2629 5: 5.26 gram fragment. $158.00

NWA 2629 6: 5.73 gram fragment. $172.00