Meteorite | Diogenite | Asteroidal achondrite |163,25g
Product detailed description
To form this meteorite, we would have to go back one to two billion years. That's when two large meteorites hit one of the largest asteroids in the solar system, Vesta (525 km in diameter), catapulting chunks of rock into space. These fragments gradually made their way to our planet as meteorites. Vesta is located in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. Diogenite is composed mostly of pyroxene crystals, olivine and plagioclase, and its thin sections are beautifully translucent.
Meteorites from Vesta belong to the so-called HED meteorites (a subgroup of achondrites), and are subdivided into Howardites, Eucrites and Diogenites - the latter being the most visually beautiful of this group.
This end section of a meteorite was found at Sakia al-Hamra in the Western Sahara.
Additional parameters
| Category: | Exclusive meteorites |
|---|---|
| Weight: | 0.2 kg |
| Name: | Diogenite NWA 7831, Diogenit |
| Origin: | Other achondrites |
| Zajímavost: | Úlomek z obřího asteroidu Vesta, který dopadly na Zemi |
| Místo nálezu: | Sakia al-Hamra, Západní Sahara |
| Hmotnost: | 163,25g |
| Rozměry: | 182x134x10 mm |
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