A Large Taza Meteorite (NWA 859)
DISCOVERED IN 2001; MODERN CUTTING
Price Realised USD 30,000
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USD 30,000 - USD 50,000
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A Large Taza Meteorite (NWA 859)
DISCOVERED IN 2001; MODERN CUTTING
Price Realised USD 30,000
Price Realised USD 30,000
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Lot Essay
Taza is an ungrouped iron meteorite found in Northwest Africa in 2001. The texture of the meteorite is quite unusual: it is a “plessitic octahedrite” consisting of elongated spindles of the low-nickel iron mineral kamacite residing in a groundmass of a fine-grained intergrowth of kamacite and taenite (the high-nickel iron mineral) known as “plessite.” Although the surfaces of many specimens are reddish, some have preserved flow lines and patches of dark fusion crust. The interiors of most samples are fresh and unweathered.
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DISCOVERED IN 2001; MODERN CUTTING
A Large Taza Meteorite (NWA 859)
Estimate: USD 30,000 - 50,000
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