METEORITE Super Rare, Super Cool, GUJBA, 2.57 gram

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is a 2.57 gram, slice of The GUJBA Meteorite. RARE RARE RARE! Gujba Yobe, Nigeria Fell 1984 April 3, 18:30 local time Bencubbin-like meteorite A conical meteorite fell in a corn field near the village of Bogga Dingare after a bright fireball was witnessed moving west to east and an explosion was heard. The local people hammered the meteorite into many pieces, and most of the material was dispersed. The original mass is unknown, although secondhand reports indicate that it had a volume of ~20 000 cm 3, and thus a mass of ~100 kg. Material that almost certainly came from this fall has been sold in the last few years elsew in Nigeria, with claims that the specimens were new finds. A preliminary description of the meteorite appears in Islam and Ostaficzuk (1988). Description (L. Karwowski, USil , based on the original mass): contains metal nodules, 1.5-8 mm in diameter, and silicate nodules 1-15 mm in diameter with fan-like aggregates of pyroxene; 60% of nodules are metal. Description and classification (A. Rubin and G. Kallemeyn, UCLA, based on a 282 g fragment purchased in 2000 near the village of Gidan Wire in Kaduna state): consists of large metal nodules containing variable amounts of troilite, and cryptocrystalline silicate spheroids; silicates include pyroxene (Fs 1-2 Wo 1-3 ) and rare olivine (Fa 3); siderophile abundance pattern in metal is similar to that of Bencubbin; shock stage, S2; weathering grade, W0. Oxygen isotopes (R. Clayton, UChi ): light-colored silicates, δ 17 O = -2.19·, δ 18 O = +0.53·; dark-colored silicates, δ 17 O = -1.78·, δ 18 O = +0.98·. Specimens: 12.2 kg, mostly disintegrated, UMaid ; 815 g, MZ ; type specimen, 64 g, UCLA ; remainder of 282 g mass, Twelker Michael Cottingham's Meteorite Collecting History and (Mini) Bio... I first started my cosmic journey with meteorites in 1996. I have always been interested in Natural History and ever since I was very young, I have collected rocks, fossils, artifacts and the like. In fact, I have been pretty darn good at finding unusual Natural History objects. However, I had never found a meteorite and I didn't even know w to begin. So, I first started by buying a few specimens to see what they actually looked like. Then I would take these specimens out into the desert area w I live and I would place them on the ground. I was trying to train my "eye" to see differently. Sometimes, I would take my meteorite specimens and throw them as far as I could into the desert, and then I would go search for them. I started to search dry lake beds and dune areas in the Southern part of my state. In Jan/1997 I was searching an area East of Columbus, New Mexico and I finally did what most people though was impossible (especially my wife) ... I found a NEW Meteorite! This was the Columbus , New Mexico , H5. T were seven small pieces of this chondrite and the total known weight at the time was only 184 grams. Since then I have recovered about 2 kilos of fragments. On an interesting note, it only took me about 300 hours to find my first meteorite! My wife and I had a bet going at the time of the Columbus find. She said, "If, If you find a new meteorite, then you can go anyw in the world and go hunt!" Well, I did. I next took our bank savings and headed out to search the Imilac strewnfield in the Atacama Desert of Chile. This area had produced many meteorites, but was remote and difficult to search. I went t and found 20 kilos of Imilac Pallasite individuals. I sold most, bought more meteorites and continued to hunt for more... Over the next few years, I either personally found or recovered through research, the following meteorites: Correo, New Mexico (200 grams), Glorietta (~1kilo), Odessa, Texas (20 kilos), Wagon Mound (87.5kg), Portales Valley (600+ grams), Gold Basin (~5 kilos), Kermit, Texas (001-005, About ~200 grams), Floydada (b) (6.266kg), O'Donnell, Texas (12.7kg), Falsey ... read more

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