Provenance:
Recovered near Tindouf, Algeria, Spring 2017.

Published:
J. Gattacceca, et al., The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 107, Meteoritics &  Planetary Science 55, 2020, pp. 460–462.

Blasted from the surface of the moon by an asteroid impact, this alien stone travelled hundreds of thousands of miles before exploding into our atmosphere and falling to earth. It lay undisturbed, blasted by arid winds on the desert floor, before its discovery in Algeria.

One of the rarest substances on Earth, the dark grey stone with large white inclusions and a sand polish is beautifully weathered with a desert patina. A cut on one side reveals a fine grained matrix with diffused large whitish to black clasts.