Lot 31
Nakhla - Mars rock
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection Part II
Auction: 17 August 2011 at 15:00 BST
£1,375
Description
fragment
Dimensions
0.228g
Footnote
Nakhla (Abu Hommos, Alexandria, Egypt) Nakhlite (stone) - fell 28th June 1911:
Mars rock: this is one of the most difficult-to-obtain Martian meteorites, with most of this fall being securely locked away for research purposes and a low total known weight of just 10kg. This meteorite has been (and continues to be) extensively researched and studied amid renewed claims of fossilised Martian bacterial lifeforms found within the stony matrix. Nakhla is the type specimen and the "N" designation in the SNC suite of Martian meteorites.