This is a rare opportunity to become The Only Person In The World to own the MAIN MASS of a classified top Carbonaceous CV3 Meteorite Specimen. This can be the highlight of your Meteorite Collection.

Dimensions: 86.5 x 54.3 x 49.8 mm max.
Name: NWA 4685 CV3 (prov.)
Location: near Tindouf, Sahara Desert
Country: ALGERIA
S2, W2, Fa mol % 4.1 - 15.4
Total Known Weight: 660 g

A very beautiful end cut, fusioncrusted and desert varnished , showing beautiful chondrules and CAI's in a dark matrix. Large CAI's are quite common in this meteorite.

This meteorite was classified by Ray Pickard, Bathurst Observatory Research Facility, New South Wales, Australia, and has been presented to the Nom.Com. to being published. It has been accepted and given the provisional name NWA 4685 CV3 (prov).

NWA 4685 is a NEW classified Meteorite, a very rare Type, a Carbonaceous Chondrite, (CV3) Vigarano Type. It is Shock level 2 and Weathering level 2, so it is very fresh.

Carbonaceous Chondrites are some the most primitive of Meteorites. The most distinctive Characteristic of this Vigarano Type of meteorites is the presence of irregular white inclusions, CAI's (Calcium-Aluminum Inclusions). They have been intensely studied, resulting in the assumption that some of the material forming the CAI's came from preexisting Interstellar Grains that mixed with the forming Solar Nebula.

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