meteorite: Hassi Zerara 001 Weight: 2.445 Grams

Description: Hi my name is Luisa Stream, im part of Streaming meteorites. Im excited to be here, every meteorite I sell comes with a COA card and display✨ METEORITE: Hassi Zerara 001 weight 2.445 Grams. Basic informationName: Hassi Zerara 001 This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: HZr 001 Observed fall: No Year found: 2024 Country: Algeria Mass:help 330 g Classification history: Recommended: Lunar (basalt) This is 1 of 31 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (basalt). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites Comments:Approved 1 Jul 2024 Writeup from MB 113: Hassi Zerara 001 (HZr 001) 31°21’41.46"N, 4°29’13.54"E Ouargla, Algeria Find: 2023 Classification: Lunar meteorite (basalt) History: Reported found December 12, 2023, approximately 80 km east-southeast of Hassi Fehal, Algeria. Purchased by Choaib Bdirina from the finder, and subsequently purchased by Mark Lyon and Jared Collins. Physical characteristics: Single stone, dark brown, sandblasted exterior, with a roughly prolate spheroid shape. Saw cut exposes a fine-grained mix of gray and white grains with some brown phenocrysts. Freshly broken surfaces display the presence of shiny maskelynite. Unbrecciated. Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) Backscatter electron images show igneous-zoned pyroxenes and lesser amounts of olivine. Maskelynite makes up approximately 20% of the modal mineralogy, ubiquitous acicular ilmenite ~5%, with minor ulvospinel, troilite, and chromite observed. Shock melt veins are present. Clinopyroxene shows Fe-enrichment trends from Mg-rich subcalcic augite to ferropigeonite. Geochemistry: (M. Spilde, UNM) Olivine Fa42.7±1.4, Fe/Mn=120±18, n=3; clinopyroxene Fs42.9±25.1Wo23.1±6.4, Fe/Mn=65±15, n=5; maskelynite An89.4±1.9Ab10.2±1.7, n=4. Shock melt SiO2=43.3±0.1, TiO2=3.9±0.0, Cr2O3=0.37±0.01, Al2O3=12.1±0.4, MgO=10.6±0.1, FeO=18.0±0.2, MnO=0.26±0.03, CaO=10.1±0.1, Na2O=0.42±0.01, K2O=0.04±0.02 (all wt%, 30 μm defocused beam), n=2. Classification: Lunar (mare basalt). Based on the TiO2 content of shock melt this meteorite is transitional between low-Ti and intermediate-Ti mare basalt (Giguere et al. 2000) or low-Ti according to the scheme of Neal and Taylor (1992). Similar bulk compositional TiO2-content as NWA 14137, however olivine compositions are different and visually the two meteorites do not resemble each other Specimens: 26 g on deposit at UNM, Mark Lyon and Jared Collins hold the main mass. Bibliography: Giguere T. A., Taylor G. J., Hawke B. R. and Lucey P. G. (2000) The titanium contents of lunar mare basalts. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 35, 193–200. (link) Neal C. R. and Taylor L. A. (1992) Petrogenesis of mare basalts: A record of lunar volcanism. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 56, 2177–2211. (link) Data from: MB113 Table 0 Line 0: State/Prov/County:Ouargla Place of purchase:Algeria Date:2023 Latitude:31°21'41.46"N Longitude:4°29'13.54"E Mass (g):330 Pieces:1 Class:Lunar (basalt) Shock stage:high Weathering grade:moderate Fayalite (mol%):42.7±1.4 Ferrosilite (mol%):42.9±25.1 Wollastonite (mol%):23.1±6.4 Classifier:C. Agee, UNM Type spec mass (g):26 Type spec location:UNM Main mass:Mark Lyon and Jared Collins Comments:Fieldname CB-1; submitted by C. Agee

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