Rocks From Space Picture of the Day
August 14, 2006
A 55.20 gm half individual NWA 859 meteorite, better known under its field name Taza.
NWA 859 is a plessitic octahedrite (iron ung.) was classified at UCLA and has been published
in Meteoritical Bulletin no. 86. This particularly attractive iron reveals an unmistakable
ice-crystal like etch pattern. NMR scalecube is 1cm.
Credit & copyright: Dr. Svend Buhl (www.niger-meteorite-recon.de)
Author & editor: Michael Johnson (SPACEROCKSINC.com)
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