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ƒ/5.6
8.8 mm
1/30
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What a celestial beauty! A very unusual new discovery, not matched to any other known meteorite.
It is classified as a Ungrouped achondrite, norite, with a “cumulate intermingling of cream-colored plagioclase grains and vivid-green pyroxene grains. This meteorite contains approximately 60% plagioclase, 35% low-Ca pyroxene. Olivine was observed as small (~100 μm) inclusions in pyroxene. Metal is nearly pure iron with trace amounts of cobalt — nickel was barely detectable with the microprobe.”
I just procured this 122g central slice, ~6×7″ Curious if there is any more info on it out there.
Some detail of mine: 
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Medium gray is pyroxene, dark gray is plagioclase. This is the intermingling of the two minerals, with blebby intergrowths. Small light gray with the pyroxene is olivine. Bright patches are metal. Scale bar is 100 microns.
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