Description

Key Details

• Classification: Achondrite (Angrite).

• Weight: 4.5 g.

• Find location: Algeria (Tindouf).

• Reference: Meteoritical Bulletin Database (LPI) https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=81288

This 4.5-gram specimen is a representative sample of Rafsa 007, a plutonic Angrite. Geologically, it is an ultramafic rock with a granular texture, composed primarily of calcium-rich olivine crystals enclosing Al-Ti-bearing diopside and spinel. This composition indicates that the rock formed through slow crystallization within the crust of a differentiated parent body in the early solar system.