Description
Fragment
Sold in a box with label / signed certificate of authenticity
Your specimen will be randomly picked up and may not be visible on the photo on the left.
Sold in a box with label / signed certificate of authenticity
Your specimen will be randomly picked up and may not be visible on the photo on the left.
Pieces for sale here come from a 0.5 g fragment I bought from Marc Jost Collection several years ago.
The Shergotty achondrite fell on August 25, 1865 at 9:00 a.m. near a town called Shergahti in Bihar State, India after detonations were heard (Graham et al. 1985). Duke (1968) refers to several stones with fusion crusts (figure 1), but this has not been confirmed. The main mass is at the Museum of the Geological Survey in Calcutta, India (figure 2). In 1984, an international consortium was organized by J. C. Laul to study ~30 grams of Shergotty in detail (see Laul 1986 a, b).
