08974B - Top Rare 5.223 g NWA Unclassified Ureilite Achondrite Meteorite Polished Section Micraster Pogonip Group

Pogonip Group

You can observe its unsegmented trapezoidal glabella

This is a unique and extremely rare piece

one of them displaced from its original position

08974B - Top Rare 5.223 g NWA Unclassified Ureilite Achondrite Meteorite Polished Section Micraster Pogonip GroupBeautiful polished section of this rare NWA Ureilite achondrite meteorite. Ureilite is a rare type of stony meteorite that has a unique mineralogical composition very different from that of other stony meteorites. This dark grey or brownish meteorite type is named after the village Novy Urey, Mordovia Republic of Russia, where a meteorite of this type fell on 4 September 1886. Notable ureilites are the Novo Urei and the Goalpara, also named for the