Iron meteorite, ungrouped- IR-UNGR, Sahara Desert, Mali
A piece of meteorite exotica: NWA 12767, the 12,767th meteorite to be recovered from the North West African grid of the Sahara Desert to be analyzed by a team of scientists and peer reviewed prior to publication in the scientific journal of record, the Meteoritical Bulletin.
NWA 12767 originates from the core of an asteroid that no longer exists. Given its compositional anomalies, it was classified as being ungrouped, which is to say it’s the sole sample from a previously unknown asteroid. The mass from which this partial slice was removed weighed only 6.3 kilograms when found, and specimens from this mass may well forever be the only representations of this singularly rare meteorite which looks like no other meteorite known.
57 x 49 x 3mm (2.25 x 2 x 0.1 in.) and 59.1 grams.
Provenance: The Collection of Aziz Habibi.
