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Copyright (c) Bernd Pauli.
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21.4 gram slice. Iron, IIIAB
TKW 32 kg. Fall not observed. Found 2000, Tafrawet, Algeria.
  
Bernd writes:
Soon after I had purchased this beautiful Tafrawet slice from the Hupé Brothers in 2004 I, like other owners of NWA 860, was contacted by Peter and Jason Utas. In an attempt to protect meteorites such as this one from distribution and thus preserve them as a whole for scientific research, they inquired if I was willing to resell it. But I had already fallen in love with this unique desert beauty so I declined and it is still in my collection.
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Jason Utas
6/25/2022 1:36:54 AM |
Please note that the pictured slice and all other slices from the ~500 gram mass were sold as Tafrawet (NWA 860) but they are not paired with Tafrawet (IIIAB). The slices were visibly distinct from Tafrawet, so we donated one to UCLA for analysis. This iron was shown to be a new IAB-sHL, NWA 3200. |
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