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An interestingly shaped piece from the meteorite fall over Moss and Rygge, Norway 14th of July 2006 at about 10:20 hours. Weight: 1.27 grams, size: 21x10x2 mm. This is a piece of the Main Mass that hit a fence and shattered! I have the largest private stock of ' Moss ' CO3 meteorite fragments in the world. The first fall of a type CO3 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite since 1937. It is classified as a CO3.6. This meteorite contains a lot of tiny chondrules - originally round melted droplets from our forming solar system ~4.6 billion years old! This is a truly rare meteorite. T are only 5 others of this meteorite type that have been seen fall to the Earth in history. Total known weight (TKW) of ' Moss ' is about 4 kg. It is also interesting to note that all stones (5 in all) from this fall hit manmade objects. This particular one hit a fence probably after first hitting the ground. Others hit an aluminum sheet near a summer cabin and two meters from the owner, another a plum tree, yet another went through the roof of a storage building and the last hit a parking area on a building. So this is a real ' hammer ' stone. This particular find of the 'Moss' meteorite is a fragment from the Main mass. It is very rarely offered on Ebay. It was collected before any rain had occured, tfore is not plagued by any rusting like later finds. Has not been touched! Very pristine carbonaceous material, just as it was 4600 million years ago! What is in fact a CO3 meteorite? A CO3 is first of all a chondrite meteorite. That is by far the most common type of stony meteorites (and any meteorite type) which is mainly made out of small spherical mineral particles - chondrules. These originally were droplets floating in space that were melted out from the primordial material of our forming solar system. The 'C' in CO3 designates that it is not the most common type of chondrites, the so called ordinary chondrites, but rather a subtype called carbonaceous chondrites. These contain a fair amount of Carbon (C) that make them look clearly darker on a fresh broken surface. Most ordinary chondrites looks much lighter than the C-chondrites. Some types of carbonaceous chondrites contains amino acids - the building blocks of organic matter and life - tfore making them very interesting for science and particularily astrobiology. The 'O' in CO3 designates the particular subtype of the carbonaceous chondrites, originating from the first of this type that was found on the Earth, the ' Ornans ' meteorite, a meteorite that fell in France in 1868. The average size of the of the chondrules varies quite much with each subtype of the chondrites. While a typical size for all chondrites is about 1 mm, for CO meteorites they are on average only 0.2 mm , so you get a lot of chondrules with the CO meteorites. The number '3' in CO3 designates that it is a petrological type 3 meteorite. The condrites can have petrological types from 1 to 6. The COs in fact can only be of type 3. Type 3 is the most primordial type, that is the most unchanged from when it originally was formed about 4.6 billion years ago. (The .x after the number is an even finer subdivision, the lowest number being the least changed.) Petrological type 1 and 2 means the meteorite was aqueously changed, while 4-6 means it was methamorphosed by heath, meaning that the chondrules are becoming increasingly indistinct with a higher number and the chondrule structure is gradually disappearing. So a type 3 meteorite is generally the aestheticaly most pleasing with chondrules standing out very distinctly. What is determining the price of a meteorite? The value of meteorites various greatly with the exact type of meteorite plus some other factors. The most important factor generally by far is the total weight and quantity of all finds of the specific meteorite type. A low total weight for a certain type means a high price. (This...
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