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ULTRA RARE Ureilite Meteorite Fragment

Weight - 0.90 grams
Measures -1.5 grams

This is a fragment of the meteorite - NWA 3140
It was found in Morocco in 2004.

This is a VERY rare type of meteorite.
One of the interesting aspects of a Ureilite is that it is an incredibly hard substance.
Meteorite dealers trying to cut Ureilites have often given up in disgust as they can end up with floor filled with broken saw blades.
Due to the huge forces the meteorite has been subject to in its traumatic existence it sometimes ends up with tiny nano- diamonds in the matrix. It is these tiny diamonds that helps destroy the blades!

A Ureilite is a rare type of stony meteorite that has a unique mineralogical composition very different from that of other stony meteorites. This dark grey or brownish meteorite type is named after the village Novy Urey , Mordovia Republic of Russia, where a meteorite of this type fell on 4 September 1886.

You will receive a signed certificate of authenticity as well as an A4 full colour meteorite information sheet.

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Tatahouine Diogenite

This is a very strange and unusual green meteorite.
The meteorite fell on June 27, 1931 at 0130 hours about 2 1/2 miles NE of the village of Foum Tatahouine, Tunisia.

This meteorite has a very friable,crystalline structure and when it hit Earth it smashed into thousands of pieces.
A total weight of around 12 kilos was collected - nearly all of these in fragments of roughly .5 gram - 1gram.

You won't receive this exact specimen but all I have in stock are very similar and weigh roughly 0.5 grams and come in a padded gem jar.

A beautiful and strange little specimen

VERY RARE!

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ULTRA RARE -Tagish Lake Meteorite Fragments

20 Milligram Fragments

This is a set of fragments of the legendary Tagish Lake Meteorite.
This is a Carbonaceous Chondrite an incredibly rare meteorite type and especially important scientifically.

( I have recently sold a sample of this meteorite to a scientist at a top Earth Sciences Department at a London University. He wanted a sample to analyse under his probes for substances new to science!)

Anyone with an interest in meteorites will know the story of this amazing meteorite fall so we won't bore you with the full story.
Basically - there was a series of fireballs over the Canadian Lake Tagish on January 18th 2000 which led to a 150 ton rock falling through Earth's atmosphere.
The bolide measured nearly 5 meters across and triggered the sensors of the Department of Defence which managed to record the explosion.
(The fireball it created is pictured below!)
The fireball left an orange/blue trail that lingered in the air for up to 15 minutes and hundreds of observers witnessed the rock's fiery entry.

While the original bolide is estimated to have weighed up to 150 tons - much of that burnt up as the meteor became a meteorite and struck Earth .
500 fragments were subsequently found in and near the frozen lake.
What makes this fall such a unique and valuable one to the scientific community is that being a carbonaceous meteorite it is both incredibly fragile and also still contains extra-terrestrial gases critical to our understanding of the creation of our Solar System.
As they landed in the ice, they were protected by it and could be carefully retrieved by investigating scientists.

VERY little of this material has reached the meteorite collecting community so this could be a superb opportunity to add a specimen of this incredible find to your collection.
Feel free to check on Ebay, but I challenge you to find ANY other seller offering samples of Tagish Lake for sale!

IMPORTANT NEWS - MAY 14TH 2006
Just this week there has been an important scientific announcement concerning Tagish lake and other carbonaceous chondrites.
They have discovered that - much like the samples recovered by the recent cometary sample expeditions, these meteorites contain interstellar grains. These are incredibly exciting particles as they were created at the VERY start of the Solar System.
This not only makes this sample far more important, scientifically - it may well shoot the commercial value through the roof!
Click this link for the full story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4973696.stm

This lot consists of a selection of Tagish lake fragments weighing 20 milligrams in a gem jar.

You will also receive a signed certificate of authenticity and an exclusive free gift - an illustrated A4 meteorite information sheet.
This was written by Mark Ford - Secretary of the BIMS (British And Irish Meteorite Society) and gives a useful overview of meteorites.
It will offer no revelations to a dedicated meteorite buff, but will be indispensable for a complete novice

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NWA 1459 Meteorite - Worlds Rarest Meteorite Class

Weight - 0.089grams
Measures - 5mm across

The Worlds Rarest Meteorite Class!!

This is a selection of fragments from an Olivine Diogenite
This is an incredibly rare meteorite type with only 4 specimens currently found.

These fragments come from a single small stone of 49 grams found in 2002 near Lake Iriqui in Morocco and sold to Adam and Greg Hupe.

An incredibly rare meteorite type!!

This is guaranteed to be a genuine meteorite - and comes nicely presented in a protective box along with a signed certificate. We will also send you an illustrated A4 meteorite information sheet. This is an ideal introduction to the amazing world of metorite collecting and would make a GREAT gift for any astronomy or natural history fan!

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ALLENDE METEORITE FRAGMENTS -ULTRA RARE- CLASSIC FALL!

This is a super little boxed set of fragments from the classic meteorite fall - ALLENDE

The Allende meteorite is the largest Carbonaceous Chondrite ever found on Earth. The fireball was witnessed at 1:05 a.m. on Febraury 8th, 1069, falling over the Mexican of Chihuaha.
There are 3 specimens weighing a total of 7 milligrams ( measuring 1-2mm across)
boxed in a protective padded gem jar.
These are only small fragments but are VERY rare, genuine and guaranteed with a signed certificate of authenticity
The samples come from a research environment and have never been handled with bare hands at any point since they were found.

It is often described as "the best-studied meteorite in history," largely due to the fact that the massive, primitive meteorite fell at a time when the field of planetary science was growing and developing instrumentation for the return of moon rocks by the Apollo program

The Allende meteorite is notable for possessing abundant, large Calcium Aluminium Rich Inclusions, which are among the oldest objects formed in the Solar System