Meteorites for Research

My passion is providing meteorites for research to meteoriticists and institutions by either purchase, loan or donation. I particularly enjoy finding meteoriteWork in progress. A solid natural object reaching a planet’s surface from interplanetary space. Solid portion of a meteoroid that survives its fall to Earth, or some other body. Meteorites are classified as stony meteorites, iron meteorites, and stony-iron meteorites. These groups are further divided according to their mineralogy and specimens with unusual features in my collection or inventory, and then contacting the researcher with that interest or expertise who may be interested. As such, I have been able to contribute to meteoritic science (even in small ways) in the following papers:

1. CAI IN THE HIGHLY UNEQUILIBRATED ORDINARY CHONDRITE NORTHWEST AFRICA 8276: IMPLICATIONS FOR CAI FORMATION AND PROCESSING. S. S. Russell, et. al. 2016 (Loan of TS: Credit given to M. Ouzillou)
2. INVESTIGATIONS OF CARBON PHASES IN CANYON DIABLO METEORITE. A. Karczemska, T. Jakbubowski, M. Ouzillou, et. al. 2016 (Loan of meteorite specimen: Credit given to M. Ouzillou)
3. SPHERULES IN THE MARTIAN POLYMICT BRECCIAS. II. CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES ON MARS. M. Humayun, et. al. 2019 (Loan of meteorite specimen: Credit given to M. Ouzillou)
4. MESQUITE: PETROGRAPHY, ALUMINUM-26 CHRONOMETRY, AND BE-B SYSTEMATICS OF AN UNUSUALLY LARGE MELILITE-RICH CAI FROM THE NORTHWEST AFRICA (NWA) 7892 CO3.0 CHONDRITE. A. T. Hertwig, E. T. Dunham, et. al. 2019 (Identified abnormally large CAISub-millimeter to centimeter-sized amorphous objects found typically in carbonaceous chondrites and ranging in color from white to greyish white and even light pink. CAIs have occasionally been found in ordinary chondrites, such as the L3.00 chondrite, NWA 8276 (Sara Russell, 2016). CAIs are also known as refractory inclusions since they in CO3.0 meteorite: No direct credit given, but the “Mesquite” CAI was named after me, Mendy)
5. INITIAL DESCRIPTION OF AN IMPACT MELT CLAST IN LL3 CHONDRITE NORTHWEST AFRICA 10598. T.L. Dunn, et. al. 2019 (Identified unusual clastA mineral or rock fragment embedded in another rock.: No credit given)

Note: When specimens are sold to an institution, there is no expectation for the seller to be credited in any publication related to those specimens.

In the event a museum or type specimen repository cannot provide a researcher a specimen/sample (especially for destructive analysis) from their collection, I will attempt to locate the required material from trusted sources. Though I cannot source Antarctic meteorites, I have been successful in finding oftentimes rare or obscure meteorites for my research clients.

Like many other collectors and dealers, I am committed to supporting and furthering the science of meteoriticsScience involved in the study of meteorites and related materials. Meteoritics are closely connected to cosmochemistry, mineralogy and geochemistry. A scientist that specializes in meteoritics is called a meteoriticist.. Like anyone who acquires meteorites new to the market, either by buying from finders or by recovering meteorites from a fresh fallMeteorite seen to fall. Such meteorites are usually collected soon after falling and are not affected by terrestrial weathering (Weathering = 0). Beginning in 2014 (date needs confirmation), the NomComm adopted the use of the terms "probable fall" and "confirmed fall" to provide better insight into the meteorite's history. If, I have had my specimen(s) classified. As part of that process, I strive to provide the most complete information possible and work with the classifying scientists to make sure the final submitted write-up to the NomCom truly reflects the composition and variety displayed by the meteorite. I have classified, been part of the classification process or been included as one of the mass holders of the following meteorites:

	Name	FindMeteorite not seen to fall, but recovered at some later date. For example, many finds from Antarctica fell 10,000 to 700,000 years ago./Fall	Date	Location	Classification	TKW
1	NWA 7874	Find	2013	Morocco	EucriteMost common type of achondrite meteorite and a member of the HED group. Eucrites are basalts composed primarily of pigeonite and anorthite (An60-98). Eucrites have been placed into three subgroups based on mineralogical and chemical differences. • Non-cumulate eucrites represent the upper crust that solidified on a magma ocean after	873 g
2	NWA 7875	Find	2013	Morocco	H7	476 g
3	NWA 7988	Find	2013	Northwest Africa	LL6	116 g
4	NWA 7989	Find	2013	Northwest Africa	Eucrite-pmict	510 g
5	NWA 8183	Find	2013	Northwest Africa	LL(L)3.2	307 g
6	NWA 8276	Find	2013	Northwest Africa	L3.00	789 g
7	Jbilet Winselwan	Find	2013	Western Sahara	CM2	6 kg
8	NWA 10016	Find	2014	Northwest Africa	Martian (shergottiteIgneous stony meteorite with a Martian origin consisting mainly of plagioclase (or a shocked glass of plagioclase composition) and pyroxene. They are the most abundant type of SNC meteorites and the type member is the Shergotty meteorite, which fell in India in 1865. Shergottites are igneous rocks of volcanic or)	11 g
9	NWA 10644	Find	2016	Northwest Africa	Lunar (feldsp. brecciaWork in Progress ... A rock that is a mechanical mixture of different minerals and/or rock fragments (clasts). A breccia may also be distinguished by the origin of its clasts: (monomict breccia: monogenetic or monolithologic, and polymict breccia: polygenetic or polylithologic). The proportions of these fragments within the unbrecciated material)	166 g
10	NWA 10921	Find	2016	Northwest Africa	DiogeniteDiogenites belong to the evolved achondrite HED group that also includes howardites and eucrites. They are named after the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Apollonia, of the 5th century BCE, who was the first to suggest that meteorites come from outer space (a realization forgotten for over 2,000 years). They are	137 g
11	NWA 11013	Find	2016	Northwest Africa	Martian (nakhliteOne of the Martian SNC meteorites, nakhlites are basaltic cumulate clinopyroxenite rocks, and most all are comprised mainly of sub-calcic augite with approximately 10% Fe-rich olivine (giving the augite a green color) that are set in a very fine-grained matrix (mesostasis) comprised of plagioclase, K-feldspar, clinopyroxene, Fe-Ti oxide (Ti-magnetite), sulfide,)	20.8 g
12	Jeminay	Find	2017	Xinjiang, China	Iron, ungroupedModifying term used to describe meteorites that are mineralogically and/or chemically unique and defy classification into the group or sub-group they most closely resemble. Some examples include Ungrouped Achondrite (achondrite-ung), Ungrouped Chondrite (chondrite-ung), Ungrouped Iron (iron-ung), and Ungrouped Carbonaceous (C-ung).	6.43 kg
13	NWA 11896	Find	2017	Northwest Africa	Martian (polymict brecciaGeneral term for all breccias that are neither monomict nor dimict. Modified from image source: http://www.saharamet.com/meteorite/gallery/HED/index.html.)	14 g
14	NWA 11474	Find	2017	Northwest Africa	Lunar (feldsp. breccia)	586 g
15	NWA 11637	Find	2017	Morocco	Iron, IIAB	4.37 kg
16	NWA 12000	Find	2017	Morocco	Iron, IIAB	225 g
17	NWA 12002	Find	2017	Morocco	Martian (shergottite)	5 g
18	Serra Pelada	Fall	2017	Para, Brazil	EucriteMost common type of achondrite meteorite and a member of the HED group. Eucrites are basalts composed primarily of pigeonite and anorthite (An60-98). Eucrites have been placed into three subgroups based on mineralogical and chemical differences. • Non-cumulate eucrites represent the upper crust that solidified on a magma ocean after	12 kg
19	Lahmada 020	Find	2018	Western Sahara	Lunar (feldsp. breccia)	12.17 kg
20	NWA 12001	Find	2018	Morocco	H5	5.23 kg
21	NWA 12003	Find	2018	Morocco	CK6	47 g
22	NWA 12535	Find	2018	Northwest Africa	CV3	467 g
23	NWA 12416	Find	2018	Northwest Africa	C3-ung	875 g
24	NWA 12924	Find	2018	Niger	H5-melt breccia	5.75 kg