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Tirhert   contributed by Gourgues Denis   MetBul Link


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74 milligrams. 10x15 mm.   Eucrite-unbr

TKW 8 kg. Fall observed 9 July 2014, Guelmim-Es-Semara, Morocco.

The MetBul has this description:
Glassy black fusion crust with translucent patches revealing plagioclase grains beneath. Broken surface shows mm-size white plagioclase and honey brown pyroxene grains, also some scattered mm-size opaque grains. Friable.


Gourgues writes:
This is my beautiful Tirhert fragment with the fabulous "wave tar" fusion crust.


Visit me on Ebay.
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gourgues denis
 6/21/2015 4:22:54 PM		 Thanks everybody !!!!..actually this Eucrite is exceptional and this fragment here, the fusion crust is: the East of an absolute black !!!!!.
M Schulman
 6/21/2015 12:31:20 PM		 WOW. Really nice
Wilford Krantz
 6/21/2015 12:10:17 PM		 Holy tar-balls, Batman! I want one!!
Jean Redelsperger
 6/21/2015 11:23:37 AM		 Wonderful!!
John Divelbiss
 6/21/2015 7:35:21 AM		 very nice little Tirhert nugget. this meteorite is undervalued IMHO, especially for the crusted pieces. not much to go around and not many other meteorites with that kind of crust. too bad it fell in Morocco, and is only a gabbroic eucrite :/ (PS I love this meteorite)
Graham Macleod
 6/21/2015 4:38:43 AM		 What an excellent Crust and the plagioclase and pyroxene in the matrix is incredible! Well done
aziz habibi
 6/21/2015 2:09:43 AM		 tres jolie, belle piece,
 

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