NWA 14488 Ordinary Chondrite H5 Melt Breccia Polished Slice 16g Lunar or Syrtis Major Planum

or Syrtis Major Planum

two brothers were searching for their camels and came across several large

It’s a glass made up of a part of the earth’s crust that melted when an iron meteorite crashed into western Tasmania almost one million years ago

and created the Darwin Crater

NWA 14488 Ordinary Chondrite H5 Melt Breccia Polished Slice 16g Lunar or Syrtis Major PlanumThis is NWA 14488. This meteorite has been classified as an ordinary chondrite H5 melt breccia. Impact melts are the result of two or more asteroids colliding with an impact so powerful, the heat generated by the colliding bodies is sufficient to flash melt rock and metal. The results form "asteroid art" of molten rock and metal within the newly joined asteroids. The weight of this piece is 16 grams. The measurements are about 70x38x2mm.