Achondrites

UMin Collection

HEDs

Martians

Lunars

Aubrites

Ureilites

Primitive Achondrites

Ungrouped Achondrites

Samples Transferred to the Smithsonian Institution

HEDs

A BSE image showing large pyroxene and plagioclase grains with small amounts of sulfides and ilmenite scattered throughout.

Name: Ilizi 002

Classification: Cumulate eucrite

Locality: Algeria, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 21.3 g

Available for Request: no (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has two small pieces and polished resin mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample is only available for non-destructive material requests.

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A very small fragment of a pale meteorite with dark flecks.

Name: Nuevo Laredo

Classification: Eucrite

Locality: Mexico, 1950 find

Mass at UMin: 2 g

Available for Request: No

Notes: UMin has a single small fragment of Nuevo Laredo.

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Slices of meteorite with black impact melt surrounding large clasts of pale grey rock.

Backscattered electron image showing basaltic clasts in a fine-grained impact melt.

Name: NWA 16311

Classification: Eucrite melt breccia

Locality: Morocco, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 88.6 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has several slices and polished resin mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample appears to be monomict.

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A slice of a meteorite with a fine-grained texture of white and blue-grey crystals, with orange staining from rusted metal.

Backscattered electron image with large dark grey plagioclase crystals and light grey pyroxene crystals.

Name: NWA 16312

Classification: Eucrite

Locality: Algeria, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 74.9 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a single slice and polished resin mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample contains fayalite veins.

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A small slice of meteorite with a patchy beige and dark grey surface.

Name: NWA 16316

Classification: Eucrite

Locality: Mauritania, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 26.9 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has two slices. This sample is highly recrystallized with large granulitic areas.

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An angular stone with a weathered brown exterior and a grey interior, with veins of black impact melt cutting across the sample.

Backscattered electron image of equally-sized dark grey plagioclase and light grey pyroxene, with a band of paler impact melt at the edge of the sample.

Name: NWA 16797

Classification: Eucrite

Locality: Morocco, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 39.1 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has one cut stone and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample has abundant melt veining.

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A small slice of a dark gray meteorite with angular fragments held in a glassy matrix.

Name: NWA 16796

Classification: Howardite

Locality: Algeria, 2022 find

Mass at UMin: 20.3 g

Available for Request: No

Notes: UMin has one cut stone and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above the type specimen mass requirements limits requests for this sample.

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A rough stone with a weathered orange crust. The interior shows tabular white and dark grey crystals and plagioclase and pyroxene.

Name: NWA 16804

Classification: Eucrite

Locality: Morocco, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 23.1 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has one cut stone and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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Slices of a very weathered meteorite, with a dark orange appearance and large black crystals of pyroxene.

Name: NWA 17059

Classification: Diogenite

Locality: Algeria, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 35.3 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has several slices and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample is a monomict fragmental breccias with large chromite grains.

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A smooth dark stone with a shiny desert varnish.

Name: NWA 17067

Classification: Eucrite breccia

Locality: Algeria, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 41.1 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a single stone and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample contains two basaltic lithologies.

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Photograph of the cut face of a diogenite meteorite with large green crystals.

Backscattered electron image showing dark grey pyroxene with round crystals of light grey olivine. White grains of chromite are sporadically dispersed throughout.

Name: NWA 17068

Classification: Diogenite, olivine-bearing

Locality: Algeria, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 58.9 g

Available for Request: No (currently on loan)

Notes: UMin has a single stone and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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Several slices of a dark grey meteorite with rounded clasts.

Name: NWA 17274

Classification: Eucrite, polymict breccia

Locality: Western Sahara, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 21.3 g

Available for Request: No (with exceptions)

Notes: UMin has several small slices and and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above type specimen requirements restricts this sample to non-destructive techniques only.

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A sliced meteorite with a dark grey interior made of impact melt and light grey to beige angular clasts.

Backscattered electron image of irregular fragments of dark grey plagioclase and mid to light pyroxene.

Name: NWA 17275

Classification: Eucrite, polymict breccia

Locality: Algeria, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 29.7 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a single slice and and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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A large slice of a gray meteorite with pale mottled clasts and a darker gray matrix, and some dark brown iron staining.

Name: NWA 18048

Classification: Eucrite, polymict breccia

Locality: Mali, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 98.7 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a large single slice and and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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A sliced meteorite breccia with pale beige clasts in a dark gray matrix.

Name: NWA 18050

Classification: Eucrite, melt breccia

Locality: Morocco, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 48.9 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a large single slice and and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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Martians

A BSE image of a fine-grained meteorite with mottled pyroxene, dark plagioclase glass, and a small amount of heavy minerals scattered throughout.

Name: NWA 17510

Classification: Shergottite, basaltic

Locality: Algeria, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 27 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a single slice and and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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A dark brown meteorite with large crystals.

Name: Stardust Mine

Classification: Shergottite, basaltic/gabbroic

Locality: Arizona, USA, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 23.8 g

Available for Request: No (exceptions, currently on loan)

Notes: UMin has a single slice and and two polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above the type specimen requirements restricts material requests to non-destructive projects.

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Lunars

A very small piece of a white, crystalline meteorite.

Name: Ghadduwah 001

Classification: Anorthosite

Locality: Libya, 2020 find

Mass at UMin: TBC

Available for Request: No (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has a single small piece.

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A sliced meteorite with a dark glassy matrix and angular, pale-gray and white clasts.

Name: NEA 061

Classification: Melt breccia

Locality: Libya, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 21 g

Available for Request: No (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has a single slice. There appears to be a shape preferred orientation in the clasts of this breccia.

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A gray meteorite breccia with many small pale clasts.

Name: NEA 075

Classification: Fragmental breccia

Locality: Sudan, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 7.6 g

Available for Request: No

Notes: UMin has a single slice and and two polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above the type specimen requirements restricts material requests to non-destructive projects.

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A dark gray, glassy meteorite with swirl-like patterns in the impact melt. Only a few fragments of white feldspar are preserved.

Name: NWA 16315

Classification: Melt breccia

Locality: Mauritania, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 25 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a single slice and aapolished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample as elongate tear-dropped shape vesicles in the impact melt.

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Several slices of a meteorite breccia with pale gray clasts in a dark matix.

Name: NWA 17060

Classification: Melt breccia

Locality: Mauritania, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 21.7 g

Available for Request: No (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has several small slices and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above the type specimen mas requirements restricts material requests for this sample to non-destructive projects.

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Two slices of a dark, glassy meteorite breccia with a few light gray and white clasts.

Name: NWA 17061

Classification: Melt breccia

Locality: Western Sahara, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 29 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has two slices and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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Two slices of meteorite, one showing the cut face with dark glassy impact melt and only a few pale clasts, and the other showing the outer surface with a beige weathering rind.

Name: NWA 17270

Classification: Melt breccia

Locality: Algeria, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 16.6 g

Available for Request: No (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has two slices and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. This sample is heavily weathered. Lack of material above the type specimen mass requirements limits requests for material to non-destructive projects.

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A large slice of a meteorite with pale clasts in a black impact melt matrix.

Name: NWA 17271

Classification: Feldspathic breccia

Locality: Algeria, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 21.2 g

Available for Request: No (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has one slice and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above the type specimen mass requirements limits requests for material to non-destructive projects.

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Name: NWA 17276

Classification: Melt breccia

Locality: Mali, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 22 g

Available for Request: No (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has one slice and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above the type specimen mass requirements limits requests for material to non-destructive projects.

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A dark gray meteorite with small black and white flecks.

Name: NWA 17509

Classification: Troctolite melt breccia

Locality: Mauritania, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 43.9 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has one slice and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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Several slices of a dark, glassy meteorite breccia with a few light gray and white clasts.

Name: Timétrine 001

Classification: Melt breccia

Locality: Western Sahara, 2023 find

Mass at UMin: 27.4 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a small collection of pieces and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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Aubrites

A pale gray meteorite with some dark orange iron staining.

Name: Cumberland Falls

Classification: Aubrite

Locality: Kentucky, USA, 1919 fall

Mass at UMin: 116 g

Available for Request: No

Notes: UMin has a single piece of Cumberland Falls as part of the UMN-USNM agreement.

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Ureilites

Name: NWA 17786

Classification: Ureilite

Locality: Western Sahara, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 22.3 g

Available for Request: No (exceptions)

Notes: UMin has a small collection of pieces and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA. Lack of material above the type specimen mass requirements limits requests for material to non-destructive projects.

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Primitive Achondrites

Several slices of a dark brown meteorite with a mottled surface.

Name: NWA 17512

Classification: Brachinite

Locality: Algeria, 2024 find

Mass at UMin: 34 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has several slices and a polished mount suitable for SEM/EPMA.

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Ungrouped Achondrites

A pale mottled meteorite with rare large, angular dark green crystals.

Name: Erg Chech 002

Classification: Achondrite, ungrouped

Locality: Algeria, 2020 find

Mass at UMin: 50.5 g

Available for Request: Yes

Notes: UMin has a single slice.

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Samples Transferred to the Smithsonian Institution

These samples were transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in the 1960s for storage and display. Although ownership remains with the University of Minnesota, they are not currently at the University and are not available for request at this time.

Name: Bishopville

Classification: Aubrite

Locality: S. Carolina, USA, 1843 fall

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