A Beautiful Green Martian Rock — Wan Zawatin 002

This is the largest central slice of what we believe to be the largest Poikilitic/Lherzolitic Shergottite ever found (191g slice from 6.9kg stone).

The bimodal textures look very interesting in the macro zoom shots (DSLR + 100mm lens), below in comments.

The classification in the Met Bull has come in, for Wan Zawatin 002: This single stone meteorite was found approximately 90 km east of the Wafa Oil Field and 100 km south of the geyser hot springs at Wadi Harakat, Libya. “Saw-cut surfaces reveal light colored domains of pyroxene poikilitically enclosing smaller darker olivines, and are bounded by groundmass darker olivine dominated zones. Reflected light microscopy and electron microprobe analysis show this meteorite to be a plagioclase (maskelynite) lherzolite with a poikilitic texture.”