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Specimens are offered on a first-come, first serve basis. All material is guaranteed to be exactly as described. A Certificate of Authenticity is included with each meteoritical specimen. For ordering please go to the Ordering page. All major credit cards accepted including PayPal. Checks are welcome but please email us first so that we may confirm availability and hold the specimen for you.

Questions on any specimens? lab@meteorlab.com
 
Cat Mountain
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Cat Mountain, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Cat Mountain is an impact-melt breccia with shocked melt L5 clasts in an igneous melt matrix.Only 2.7 kg was found. Specimens of this unusual chondrite are rarely available.

Cat Mountain, 8 grams, 45mm x 23mm x 4mm, $960.00
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Adzhi-Bogdo, Mongolia
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Adzhi-Bogdo, Mongolia

A single 910 gram stone was seen to fall at the end of October in 1949 over Gobi Altay, Mongolia. The stone was later classified as an LL3-6. Offered is a 14.7 gram fusion crusted partial slice of this very unusual meteorite. The LL3 groundmass displays a vivid amount of chondrules and LL6 angular clasts. The front and back of this specimen are pictured above.
Adzhi-Bogdo, LL3-6, fusion crusted partial slice,
14.7 grams, 33mm x 19mm, 8mm $ 2,940.00
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Sikhote-Alin, Siberia

This iron meteorite Fell February 12, 1947 over Siberia, Russia. This is a nice, stable, regmaglypted specimen with fusion crust, 62 grams.
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Sikhote-Alin, 62 grams, 45mm x 29mm x26mm, $ 188.00
 
Eagle
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Eagle, Cass County, Nebraska, USA

Eagle is a brecciated, enstatite chondrite, EL6 that fell over Nebraska on October 01, 1946. There are no oxides on this prepared specimen.
Eagle, 10.2 grams, 37mm x 25mm x 3mm, $340.00
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Murchison

 


Carbonaceous chondrite, CM2
Famous Fall, Murchison Australia, amino acids from space! This is the one that excited biologists - over 90 amino acids have been found in this meteorite that fell in 1969.This fusion crusted fragment is exceptionally clean with many chondrules and clasts visible within a dark gray/black matrix.
 
Murchison, 5.15 grams, fusion crust, angular fragment, 33mm x 21mm x 18mm, $1,030.00
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Murchison, 1.14 grams, fusion crust, angular fragment, 13mm x14mm x 8mm, $233.00
 
 
6 Extremely Rare Carbonado Diamonds
Black Diamonds from Space
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Carbonado Diamond

1.65ct, 10m x 5mm x 4mm, $330.00
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Carbonado Diamond

.72ct, 5mm x 6mm x 3mm $144.00
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Carbonado Diamond

1.7ct, 8mm x 7mm x 3.6mm $340.00
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Carbonado Diamond

2.20ct, 7mm x 7mm x 5mm, $440.00
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Carbonado Diamond

2.53ct, 10mm x 6mm x 4mm $490.00
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Carbonado Diamond

2.85ct, 9mm x 5mm x 6mm $560.00
Current data on Carbonado Diamonds

Carbonado or "black" diamonds, are exotic diamonds found in Brazil and the Central African Republic. They are unusual for being the color of charcoal and full of frothy bubbles. These diamonds can also have a face that looks like melted glass.
A research team led by Stephen Haggerty of Florida International University in Miami has presented a new study that these "stones" were brought to Earth by an asteroid billions of years ago. The findings were published online in the journal "Astrophysical Journal Letters" on December 20, 2006.
The scientists exposed polished pieces of these stones, now known as carbonado diamonds, to extremely intense infrared light. The test revealed the presence of many hydrogen-carbon bonds, indicating that the diamonds probably formed in a hydrogen-rich environment-such as that found in space. The diamonds also showed strong similarities to tiny nanodiamonds, which are frequently found in meteorites. Astrophysicists have developed theories predicting that nanodiamonds form easily in the stellar explosions called supernovas, which scatter debris through interstellar space.
Haggerty maintains that the deposits in the Central African Republic and Brazil, came from the impact of a diamond-rich asteroid millions of years ago, when South America and Africa were joined. So even though the two diamond fields are now thousands of miles apart, they're remnants of a single, original deposit. Haggerty estimated that the asteroid must have been about half a mile (one kilometer) in diameter.
The unusual bubbles seen in specimens of carbonados probably came from fizzing gases when the diamonds were forming, Haggerty added. This adds further credence to the extraterrestrial origin theory, since conventional diamonds form under immense pressure deep beneath the Earths crust, where gas bubbles simply couldn't form.
Carbonado diamonds also contain a mineral called osborneite, which has been found only in meteorites and comet dust recovered by the recent Stardust mission. Additionally, adding to the evidence for an extra-terrestrial origin, carbonado diamonds have never been reported among any of the other 600 tons of "conventional" diamonds mined, sorted, graded, traded, cut, and polished in the last century. Hopefully, researchers will eventually identify a carbonado parent body in the Asteroid Belt."
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Chantonnay
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Chantonnay, Vendee, France

Chantonnay is a highly shocked, L6 stone meteorite that was seen to fall on August 5, 1812. It's a brecciated stone with both melt pockets and melt veins.
Offered is a 9.3 gram, partial slice, that vividly displays the brecciation of this historic French Fall.
Chantonnay, 9.3 grams, 40mm x 26mm x 4mm, 1,488.00
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Kendleton
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Kendleton, Fort Bend County, Texas, USA

This is a chondrule-rich, black, brecciated stone meteorite containing L3, L5, and L6 clasts! It fell on May 02, 1939 with 6.9 kg recovered. Simply stated, this is a complex meteorite, rarely seen in sliced specimens.
Kendleton, 8.2 grams, 38mm x 30mm x 3mm $262.40
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A Piece of Mars!
  Martian Meteorite Display Set

One of the most thought-provoking areas of science is the search for life on Mars. This search has been centered around Martian meteorites found on Earth that were blasted from the Martian surface by impacts.

This Display Set contains a carefully prepared slice of a Martian meteorite - an actual piece of the planet Mars - enclosed in an easily opened display case, oak base, engraved brass label, and signed Certificate of Authenticity.

Martian Display Set $ 290.00
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Your own piece
of the Moon!

Lunar Meteorite Display Set

Ever think about touching and owning a piece of the Moon? Impossible only a couple of years ago but no longer. Several lunar meteorites have been found in the Libyan Desert and small fragments are occassionally available.

This extraordinary Display Set contains a 2 to 3mm size fragment of the Moon enclosed in a 2x2" display case easily opened for examination along with research information, oak base, engraved brass label, and signed Certificate of Authenticity.

Lunar Meteorite Set, $ 340.00
 
 
 
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