Lot 91
Northwest Africa 2727
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
£2,750
Description
Fusion crused fragment
Dimensions
2.194g
Footnote
Northwest Africa 2727 (Northwest Africa) Lunar (stone) - found 2005
Discovered in the desert by wandering nomads, and sold at market in Erfoud, Morocco, this meteorite has been analysed and classified by scientists at Northern Arizona University, the University of Washington, and McDonell Centre for Space Sciences, Washington University, and found to be a rare achondrite, lunar mare basalt - a meteorite ejected from the mare regions of our Moon by the collision of a large asteroid with the Moon's surface.