My favorites
On This page I will list descriptions and most importantly photos, lots of photos. This page will change often, so check back once in a while. I change my mind a lot, different favorite almost like everyday. I have over 100 to choose from.
MB001
The Millbillillie meteorite was observed to fall about 1:00pm in October, 1960 by two men opening a gate in the boundary fence along the Millbillillie - Jundee Station track near Wiluna in Western Australia. An object "with sparks coming off it" was observed to fall into a Spinifex (grass) plain to their North. No search was initiated at the time, however later in 1970 and 1971 a relative and friend of one of the original witnesses found the first two stones. One weighing 20kg (Main Mass) which is now in the Western Australia Museum and a smaller 565g piece. Local Aborigines later found even more stones with a Total Known Weight now somewhere around 100kg - 300kg. Millbillillie has been classified as an Achondritic (Polymict) Eucrite and displays a beautiful rich black glassy fusion crust.
Sah420
This unclassified Saharan meteorite is unlike any other that I have come across. It has a very porous grey interior with quite a bit of white material mixed in with the grey matrix. When I was polishing it the smell of sulfur was pretty strong. You can also see inclusions and melt pits through the surface. This is a 300 gram piece, I am sending in a sample so it can be classified, I think it might be worth it.
SAH012
This is a very nice unclassified Saharan Meteorite that has awesome flow lines, and is oriented. It is however a half a meteorite. It appears to have broken up just before impact, it has a very light layer of fusion crust on the broken edge. The top of it has a very dark and thick fusion crust compared to the crust with the very nice flow lines.
SAH006
This is one of my favorites, because it is very nicely crusted and show evidence of where it impacted Earth. It shows that it broke up just before impact.
Sah016
This is an interesting piece, it has a light and a dark lithogy. It almost looks like a dirty part or a part that was wet or something, but it never was, after being cut. The dark part looks like a man in a black hood, you can see chondrules that look like eyes and the outline of the dark part looks like the hood and body. Maybe I am just crazy and look at these too much, who knows. I do know that this is one of my favorite pieces.
Sah015
This is a very nice, unique piece. It seems to have no visual chondrules and some very nice veins, I am not sure what they are made up of? You can notice that this has many little hole, it is really porous and looks really cool under the microscope. This weighs a total of 300 grams. I am probably going to try and have it classified.
NWA801
This is a nice thin cut of NWA 801, a CR2 meteorite. This material is very fresh with loads of visible metal. the weight is 2.33g and it measures 30x21mm. This is a full slice with crust on probably 80-90% of the rim - a rare feature of NWA 801 material! Very nice orange chondrules with surrounding metal.
SAH013
This is a really nice Saharan meteorite slice that is brecciated on the top, it is like this through out the full meteorite. I have a few slices and a couple of end pieces available if you interested. I like this one because of the nice chondrule.
NWA2137
This is a superb slice of NWA 2137, it is a very neat LL3.7 Several large chondrules are visible in this slice that measures 3.13g and is 32x26 mm in size.
DL001
This is a very nicely crusted unclassified Saharan Meteorites. It has a very nice interior that has two different lithogies, a grey one and a white/brown one. I think that the grey part looks like Rumuruti. I am sure I am wrong, but that's what it looks like to me.
NWA 753 Rumuruti R3.9
The Rumuruti meteorites are among the rarest of the chondrites, only a handful of them have ever been found. Before this one (which weighed 10 times more than all of the others combined) was found, the R chondrites could not be purchased for less than $1000.00 per gram! Because many kilos of this one was put on the collector market, the price was brought down very low. It has since been rising again due to lack of remaining material.
12 kg of this meteorite in many pieces was purchased in Rissani in 2001 January. It was probably found in the Kem Kem region. Classification and mineralogy (A. Sokol and A. Bischoff, Mün): the sample appears to be unbrecciated in thin section; olivine, Fa38.6±3.2 (range Fa20–41, n = 36); Ca-poor pyroxene, Fs20.3±4.0 (range Fs8–30, n = 24); Ca-pyroxene, Fs9.1±0.5Wo47.6±1.8; plagioclase, An11.4±1.7; shock stage, S2; weathering grade, W2, making it one of the freshest R chondrites besides Rumuruti; sulfides are well preserved. See also Bischoff et al. (2001).
SAH014
This is a very interesting piece. I like how it is brecciated and has the different colored interior. This is one of my favorites because of how nice it looks, many nice chondrules to go along with the brecciated interior, very nice.
SAH011
These are 97.2 gram, 71.3 gram end pieces. The dark material on the top smell strong of sulfur. I would have to say this is a very unique piece, I have not seen this before. The crust on the top of the meteorite was really black and the crust that was left on the bottom was lighter brown, you could defiantly see a difference in color in the fourth photo on top.
