NWA 8595 Meteorite Thin Section
As a Howardite, the NWA 8595 meteorite called Vesta 4 home for billions of years — until an impact knocked this regolith breccia off its lonely host and on a trajectory for the more hospitable land of Morocco, Earth.
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Allende Meteorite Thin Section
Thin sections of the Allende Meteorite provide some of my favorite scenes from the ancient Solar System. Viewed with a microscope in cross polarized light, the chondrules in combination with the CAIs appear about as out-of-this-world as any image of Saturn or the Carina Nebula.
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NWA 2824 Meteorite Thin Section
Cross polarized thin section of NWA 2824, a diogenite with a multitude of white-gray needle like inclusions which, in their color and texture, resemble those found in the Ibitira Meteorite Thin Section. These are described as “Plagioclase recrystallized into complex spherulitic textures.” See this link for more classification information on diogenites.
Impactika has nice close-up images of the the plagioclase textures: TS Image 1 and TS Image 2
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