Specimen 0001
Northwest Africa 4166
This wallet is a 397 g ordinary chondrite, Northwest Africa 4166, found in northwest Africa in 2002.
Stone built of chondrules, millimetre beads of rock that melted and froze in the young solar system. Ordinary chondrites are the most common meteorites. Their chondrules formed about 4.56 billion years ago, before Earth finished forming. L means low iron; type 5: heated inside its parent asteroid.
- Class
- L5 · ordinary chondrite, type 5
- Mass
- 397 g · as one solid ball, 6.1 cm across, about a tennis ball
- Found
- 2002
- Place
- northwest Africa (exact spot not recorded)
- Coordinates
- not recorded; its namesakes lie around 29.92°N 5.58°W
- Rarity
- Common · Older than Earth
- Record
- Meteoritical Bulletin no. 34438 · row 28,410 of 45,716
- Picked by
- SHA-256(address), before launch
- Wallet
- 23Hs…rt15
The card is yours to make; the meteorite and its record belong to the Meteoritical Society's catalogue. The NFT is a card, not a meteorite.