Sahara 99668 150.7g Single Stone Find impactite The white clasts in this

The white clasts in this lunar when cut thin are transparent

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Erg Chech 002 Ungrouped Achondrite 2

The main mass is currently at the Geological Museum of the Geological and Geophysical Institute of the Siberian Branch RAS

This is an extremely rare meteorite and there isn't much at all in circulation

Sahara 99668 150.7g Single Stone Find impactite The white clasts in thisThis one is called Sahara 99668. Long ago, before the Meteoritical Bulletin existed, there wasn't a classification system for meteorites. During the mid to late 1990s, the Labenne family (Marc and his sons Jim and Luc) would hunt the Sahara Desert in Northwest Africa. With each meteorite they found, they painted a field number on it which was their way of cataloguing each one. This one has 99578 painted on it. It means it was found in 1999 and it's