NWA 5903 Meteorite Thin Section

This thin section image of NWA 5903 provides viewers with an abstract painting created by nature. To look at a thin section of any rock under cross polarized light is to view the emergent features of mineral formation. Sextillions upon sextillions of atoms all interacting! It is fascinating to observe how matter crystallizes in various geometries and how this crystallized matter acts under polarized radiation. The eucrites are always wonderful to view this natural process, and NWA 5903 does not disappoint. The calcic plagioclase and exsolved pyroxene are mostly what give this image its incredible beauty.

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4x/0.25, calcium-aluminium-rich inclusion, carbonaceous, chondrite, LMScope, Nikon D810, northwest africa, polarized, scope2, zerene stacker

NWA 2364 Meteorite Thin Section

Thin section of NWA 2364. The matrix is very dark, an attribute of its carbonaceous composition. It contains some nice CAIs and chondrules. Readers should recall that some of this meteorite’s CAIs are the oldest dated matter in the solar system. Check out the links below to see the overlay of this thin section with the surface photos of the same fragment for awesome before and after comparisons.

Link to manually change the transparency of the thin section overlaid on the surface

YouTube video of a slideshow showing the transparency overlay

GIMP file allowing users to change the transparency overlay

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4x/0.25, chondrite, LMScope, Nikon D810, northwest africa, polarized, scope2, zerene stacker

NWA 2892 Meteorite Thin Section

This thin section of NWA 2892 was enjoyable to photograph. It has a wide diversity of chondrules and interesting shock melt veins. The source meteorite fragment looks fascinating, as you can see at Meteorites Australia:

NWA 2892 Images
August 2005 Meteorite of the Month

Additional images of this thin section:
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NWA 2892 contains several interesting chondrule inclusions, similar to others shown in the photo below: