Meteorite new acquisitions of the museum

Through a donation of the Irene and Friedrich Vorwerk Foundation, Tostedt, the acquisition of a new valuable meteorite for the collection of the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Hamburg was possible.

9.6 g - fragment of the Martian meteorite NAKHLA

his meteorite is a 1.3 billion year old fragment of the surface of Mars, which was hurled into space by a large meteorite impact there and, after a stay in space lasting about 11 million years, finally collided with Earth on June 28, 1911.

To human observers, this collision revealed itself as a meteorite fall, which occurred near the village of El Nakhla el Baharia near Alexandria, Egypt.

The meteorite consists of an igneous rock composed of clinopyroxene (augite), olivine as well as plagioclase and is called clinopyroxenite.