Mount Egerton (aubrite) – fragment

Anomalous Aubrite.

Mt Egerton is located approximately 200 kilometres north-west of Meekatharra, or 80 kilometres east south-east of Mt Augustus, on Woodlands Station, in remote hilly semi arid country. The initial 1.7 kg meteorite fragment was discovered by a local propector in 1941, 15 kilometres north east of Mt Egerton. Subsequent searches located thousands of small fragments under 1 gram. It is classed as an anomalous Aubrite meteorite where enstatite is the primary metal discoloured over time by weathering. The meteorite is composed of centimetre sized enstatite crystals.

There have been found thousands of sub gramm fragments of Mount Egerton. The here offered 8.6g fragment, wich is a fragment of a single Enstatit crystall, is very rare in size.