Rocks From Space Picture of the Day

April 11, 2005

Credit & copyright: Anne Black (www.impactika.com)

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Author & editor: Michael Johnson (www.spacerocksinc.com)

Fifteen fragments with fresh black crust were found close together in May 2001 in the desert of Da al Ghani, in Libya. The total weight was only 781 grams. A fragment was given to the Humbolt Universitaet in Berlin for analysis. It is a carbonaceous chondrite, but it is a Vigarano-type and a Karoonda-type carbonaceous, and is not brecciated. It will be published soon with a DAG number and classification: CV/CK 3.