Description
Here are fragments of the Shergotty meteorite, the type specimen of the shergottites (Mars). It is an exceedlingly rare meteorite so of high value.
They are sold with label/certificate. This one comes from a 0.5g stone I bought many years ago from the Marc Jost collection.
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).
