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Wabar Impactite

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Wabar Impactite

Description- A lacy, delicate impactite individual which looks as though it is composed of small stringers of melt material.

Location-  The meteorite impact in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in southern Saudi Arabia.

Weight1.2 grams.

Measurements21 mm x 16 mm x 15 mm

 

Additional information:

Three craters have been documented though very little material has come out of this site, and now the craters are covered over by the ever-shifting sand dunes. These pieces came from a collection that has been in storage for about 20 years; an American working in Saudi Arabia for 30 years visited the craters 3 times in the 1990s, bringing back some material. This is what remains of his collection.