AUBRITE Meteorite Djoua 001, FULL 128g Slice Achondrite, POSSIBLE PLANET MERCURY

Description

Museum quality. A rare one-time opportunity, there is only one Aubrite slice this size for sale.
Comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Dimensions: 165 x 109 x 3.5 mm
Weight: 128 grams
One side is mirror polished.
A recent paper proposes that aubrites (a class of similar meteorites like this one), are samples of ancient Mercury, parts of its mantle that were blasted off in a massive collision, removing a third of its mass.  Some of the material ended up in the asteroid belt, pushed by the intense solar winds or that epoch, forming the E-type asteroids. And like many other asteroids, various gravitational resonances with Jupiter eventually flung this material to Earth, a time capsule from the formative years of our solar system. Although no samples have been returned from Mercury, meteorites, such as aubrites, can be studied as mercurian analogues.
Name: Djoua 001. This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Year found: 2021
Country: Algeria
This is 1 of 75 approved meteorites classified as Aubrite.