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TKW 11.53 kg. Fall not observed. Found 2007 in Morocco.

John writes:
Photo 1 - Impact melt glass with elongated bubbles. Thin section in oblique incident light. Field of view is 0.3mm wide.

Photos 2 and 3 - Impact melt glass containing angular mineral fragments and small opaque blebs of troilite. Thin section in partially crossed polarized light.
 


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gourgues Denis
 11/1/2014 9:07:07 PM
Amazing...because I have a little fragment,but I don't a microscope for watching....just a loop x60...
Anne Black
 11/1/2014 12:58:55 PM
Yes, Denis, we did have a small slice of NWA 5000 cut into thin-sections. And they were very pretty.
gourgues Denis
 11/1/2014 8:58:14 AM
...like a beautiful nebula !!!
Ray Watts /# 6289
 11/1/2014 8:13:23 AM
In photo # 1 / looks like opals floating in rivers of melt ! Awesome looking & glad You sacrificed a piece of this wondrous material for a slide , Great captures .
gourgues Denis
 11/1/2014 4:13:55 AM
Very impressive !! It look like grains 'fleet in the air' like a supernova..verry nice !!!. It's a part of fragment NWA5000 ???..
John Hope
 11/1/2014 2:17:09 AM
Spectacular photo's John. Thanks for sharing them.
 

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