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The Unusual Meteorite Features Page

This page is dedicated to specific features of meteoritesmeteorites that have something unusual or different about them. Something that you would not normally see from the typical specimen of that particular meteorite. Clicking the underlined meteorite name will take you to the specimens page.

These are the specimens on 'The Unusual Meteorite Features Page' so far:

Ordinary Chondrites

  • NWA 3099  (L/LL3) - 11.80g Complete Slice with Incredible Matrix / Inclusions.

  • NWA 1881 (LL4-6) - 1.50g Complete Slice with Patch of Thick Fusion Crust.

  • NWA 803  (L6) - 11.70g Endcut with large metal pockets/inclusions.

  • NWA 802  (H6) - 6.70g Endcut with large metal pocket inclusion.

  • NWA 802  (H6) - 8.00g Slice with metal vein.

  • Sahara 99023  (H5) - 2.00g Partslice with large pale inclusion.

  • Zag  (H3-6) - 9.10g Individual with Primary & Secondary fusion crust.

  • Unclassified Saharan - 9.50g Sliced Individual with black inclusions.

  • Unclassified Saharan - 32.30g Halved Individual with Dual Lithology's.

  • Unclassified Saharan - 37.00g Individual with surface holes.

  • JaH 026 (L3.1) - 4.10g Endcut with great chondrules.

  • Seagraves (c) (L6-7) - 12.29g Partslice with Black Inclusion.

  • NWA 2385 (L3.8) - 9.2g Half Slice with Gold-like inclusion & Large Inclusion.

  • NWA 3119 (LL4) - 16.3g Complete Slice with Inclusions.

  • NWA 2490 (H/L3) - 5.88g Main Mass with Unusual Inclusions.

  • NWA 2892 (H/L3) - 9.84g Complete Slice with Macrochondrules & Conglomerate.

  • Gao-Guenie (H5) - 12.97g Highly Oriented Individual.

  • Sahara 99898 (Unclassified) - 123.5g Main Mass with Huge Shock Vein.

  • Bensour (LL6) - 27.77g Half Individual with Large Troilite Inclusion.

  • Unclassified Saharan - 17.50g Halved Individual with Unusual Interior.

  • NWA 3128 (LL3.8) - 5.3g Partslice with Primitive/Pristine Xenolith.

  • NWA 2933 (L3.3 Regolith Breccia) - 10.2g Slice with Black Inclusion.

  • NWA 4040 (L3) - 21.71g Partslice with Large Pale Inclusion.

  • Unclassified NWA - 133.2g Highly Oriented Individual.

  • Kendleton (L4 Regolith Breccia) - 4.2g Partslice with Multiple Clasts.

  • NWA 4560 (LL3.1) - 6.72g Complete Slice with Dual Lithologies.

  • NWA 4560 (LL3.1) - 10.9g Complete Slice with Black Inclusions.

  • NWA 3161 (LL3.7) - 11.2g Complete Slice with Blackened Inclusion.

  • NWA 5477 (L3) - 12.82g Complete Slice with Unusual Inclusion.

  • Bassikounou (H5) - 124g Individual with Rich Black Fusion Crust.

  • NWA 5554 (H/L3-6) - 34.97g Complete Slice with Multiple Features.

  • Sahara 03501 (Igaren) (H4) - 140.3g Complete Slice with Metallic Iron Veins.

  • NWA 5507 (L3.2) - Slices Showing Orientation Of Chondrules.

  • NWA 5206 (LL3.05) - Slices With Metallic & Mantled Chondrules.

  • Buzzard Coulee (H4) - 17.2g Oriented Individual with Bright Metallic Blue Inclusion.

Carbonaceous, Enstatite & Rumurutiite Chondrites

  • Isheyevo (CB3) - 2.60g Endcut with Bright Teal-Blue/Green Inclusion.

  • NWA 2733 (CO3.6) - 243.2g Main Mass With Unusual Surface Ablation Feature.

  • Moss (CO3.6)- 1.23g Fresh Fragment with fusion crust.

  • NWA 2921 (R3.8) - 44.4g Halved Individual with Primitive Clast.

  • NWA 978 (R3.8) - 5.3g Complete Slice with Primitive Clasts.

  • NWA 2086 (CV3) - 2.36g Endcut with Large CAI.

  • NWA 2140 (CV3) - 1.31g Slice with Large Irregular Shaped CAI.

  • NWA 4679 (CK4) - 10.5g Partslice with Large Dark Inclusion.

  • NWA 3118 (CV3) - Slices with Dark Inclusions (DI's).

  • NWA 4025 (CB3) - 2.05g Endcut with Pyroxene.

Achondrites

  • NWA 3159 (Eucrite) - 8.7g Complete Slice with Melt Veins & Vesicles.

  • NWA 3147 (Eucrite) - 4.10g Endcut with Plagioclase Laths visible in fusion crust.

  • Dhofar 700 / Dho 700 (Diogenite) - 29.2g Individual with Vesicles.

  • Tatahouine (Diogenite) - 6.10g Fragment with Visible Metal.

  • NWA 1836 (Eucrite) - 7.10g Slice with Unusual Matrix.

  • NWA 1281 (Howardite) - 5.4g & 6.3g Partslice with Diogenite Melts.

  • NWA 999 (Eucrite) - 2.7g Partslice with Black Grains.

  • D'Orbigny (Angrite) - 1.25g Partslice with Vugs/Vesicles.

  • NWA 2705 (Ureilite) - 3.2g Endcut with Interstitial Metal Veins.

  • NWA 1068 (SNC - Shergottite) - 3.2g Partslice with Unusual Inclusion.

  • Ibitira (Anomalous Basaltic Achondrite) - 2.275g Partslice with Vugs/Vesicles.

  • DAG 1037 (SNC - Shergottite) - 9.6g Complete Slice with Melt Vein and Melt Vesicles.

  • NWA 4934 (Howardite) - 9.6g Complete Slice with large Diogenite crystal.

  • NWA 2624 (Ureilite) - 2.1g Complete Slice with Pyroxene Megacrysts.

Stony/Irons

  • Al Mahbas (Pallasite) - 5.63g Half Individual with 'Rainbow' Olivine.

  • NWA 1827 (Mesosiderite) - 13.78g Endcut with Crystal Inclusions.

  • NWA 1882 (Mesosiderite) - 1.89g Endcut with large metal nodule.

Irons

  • Unclassified Australian Iron - 277g Oriented Nosecone Individual.

  • Youndegin (IAB) - 76.1g Complete Slice with Multiple Features.

  • N'Goureyma (ANOM-UNGR Iron) - 3.7g Partslice with Unusual Troilite Inclusions.

  • Sikhote-Alin (IIB) - 32.8g & 11.9g Oriented Individuals with a Surface 'Impact Pit/Crater'.

  • Sikhote-Alin (IIB) - 83g Individual with melted surface formations.

  • Henbury (IIIAB) - 0.853kg Sculptured & Regmaglypted Individual.

  • Taza (Plessitic Iron) - 1.87g Individual with sculptured shape.

  • Taza (Plessitic Iron) - 2.84g Dual Oriented Individual.

  • Taza (Plessitic Iron) - 22.0g Sheared Flight Marked Individual with Ridge.

  • Campo del Cielo (IAB) - 5.00g Individual with sculptured shape.

  • Tambo Quemado (IIIAB) - 80.60g Slice with Unusual Inclusion.

  • Muonionalusta (IVA) - 306g Half Slice with Displacement Lines.

  • Canyon Diablo (IAB) - Nininger Metallic Spheroids.

  • Corowa (IIF) - 70.6g Partslice with Large Irregular Troilite Nodule.

  • Henbury (IIIAB) - 193.7g Sculptured & Regmaglypted Individual.

  • Watson (IIE) - 8.29g Partslice with Dendritic Melt Pockets.

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