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Found in the Sahara Desert near Tindouf by Nomads in 2006
Weight: 3.70 g
Dimensions: 14.1 x 12.3 x 12.0 mm max.
Name: NWA 4685 CVox3
Location: near Tindouf, Sahara Desert
Country: ALGERIA
Total Known Weight: 1,244 g
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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.
NWA 4685 CVox3 is a fully classified Meteorite, a very rare Type, a Carbonaceous Chondrite, (CVox3) Vigarano Type. It was classidied by Jerome Gattacceca at CEREGE and is published in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database.
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.
The Total Known Weight (TKW) is 1,244g and consists of two larger individuals, 660.0g and 155.2g, and 48 smaller individuals and fragments, most of them containing fusion crust.
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A Specimen not to be missed in any Meteorite Collection.