AMGALA 001 MARTIAN METEORITES

Here we are offering specimens of the new Martian meteorite Amgala 001. This martian Shergottite has a TKW of around 35 kg. Amgala Shergottites are a collector's dream being very solid and many of them have beautiful thumb-printed crust-like exterior that has been sandblasted by the blowing sands of the Sahara Desert. They are the most affordable Martian meteorites we have ever been able to acquire and the supply is just about gone! Don't miss out on adding one of these beautiful, affordably priced specimens to your collection while they last!

Excerpt from Classification of Amgala 001 as found in Met. Bull. :

Amgala 001 26.014°N, 11.020°W

Saguia el Hamra, Western Sahara

Purchased: 2022 Dec

Classification: Martian meteorite (Shergottite)

History: Multiple stones were found together in December 2022 near Meharrize. Said Muftah Bachir and Ziyao Wang bought 12 kg together from the finders, including the largest 5200 g individual.

Physical characteristics: Weathered exterior surfaces of the stones are brown with a distinctive knobby appearance. Fresh interiors are greenish-gray with darker olivine phenocrysts visible.

Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Zoned olivine phenocrysts (up to 2 mm in length) are set in a groundmass with variable grainsize composed predominantly of prismatic, zoned clinopyroxene and lath-like maskelynite, together with accessory alkali feldspar, pyrrhotite, ulvöspinel, chromite (with variable Ti content), ilmenite, baddeleyite and chlorapatite. Thin opaque shock veins crosscut the specimen as well as secondary calcite veinlets. Olivine phenocrysts contain small patches of alteration products (red-brown in thin section).

Classification: Shergottite (olivine-phyric).

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Amgala 001 Martian Meteorites