Certified TAZIZILET Specimen Meteorite Slice 0.8g - Recovered 2006, Niger - RARE

Slice from "Tazizilet" meteorite recovered in Niger, Africa at 17°38.628’N, 9°26.485’E in 2006. This rare, low iron stone meteorite was recovered in 2006 in Agadez, Niger; only one of three meteorites ever recovered in that country. Only one specimen with a total gram weight of less than 1 kilogram was recovered. 

Item Details: Specimen NT0006 is approx. 5/8" in length on the longest side, and weighs 0.8 grams. Included is a floating 3D membrane display case, beautifully displaying your very own piece of the cosmos! Please contact me with any questions regarding this acquisition, or see the abstract from the official certifying source (Lunar and Planetary Institute) here: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/docs/mb103.pdf 

Tazizilet Meteorite Classification: Ordinary Chondrite (L5), weathering grade W1, shock stage S3.

Tazizilet Meteorite History: Recovered by myself, Jen Winter, and my team during a guided eclipse tour in March of 2006. The area where the stone was found was in an open, flat plain with many other small rock types. 

Tazizilet Meteorite Physical Characteristics: Complete individual, some weathered fusion crust, axe-head shaped stone. Saw cut reveals numerous chondrules in a brown-green, medium-grained groundmass, metal/sulfide scattered throughout, also some metal veinlets.

Tazizilet Meteorite Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) Microprobe examination of a polished mount shows many equilibrated chondrules, most with fine-grained plagioclase. Ubiquitous kamacite, taenite, troilite, and chromite.

Tazizilet Meteorite Geochemistry: (C. Agee and N. Muttik, UNM) EMPA. Olivine Fa25.1±0.7, Fe/Mn=49±4, n=9; low Ca-pyroxene Fs21.3±1.0Wo1.5±0.3, Fe/Mn=30±2, n=7.