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Polished half of a stone meteorite with abundant chondrules. The finished face of this NWA 869 end cut displays numerous 4.56-billion-year-old chondrules—the building blocks of the rocky bodies of the solar system. It contains multiple and varied examples of the oldest remnants of our own solar system and the face also shows an abundance of tiny, extraterrestrial nickel-iron flecks.

"Northwest Africa 869 is a regolith breccia, containing solar noble gases and preirradiated lithologies. Olivine in lithic clasts. Fracture faces, formed by ground collision, show a typical gray-green color and sometimes visible brecciation (light and/or dark clasts)." — <a href="https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=31890" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Meteoritical Bulletin</a>, Found in 2000.

"It is an L3–6 chondrite and probably represents the largest sample of the rare regolith breccias from the L–chondrite asteroid. We speculate that this material stems from a region of the parent body that was only weakly consolidated." "We found that Ar release of impact lithologies at intermediate temperature extractions displays apparent ages very similar to the solar system age of 4.56 billion years." 4.4 billion years ago it was "heated by an early impact event. The final assembly and shock lithification of NWA 869 occurred less than 1.79 billion years ago. None of the measured components indicate involvement in the cataclysmic event approximately 470 million years ago, which affected many other L–chondrites and likely disrupted the L–chondrite parent body." — <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01181.x" rel="noreferrer nofollow">2011 Study</a>

The companion <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01204.x" rel="noreferrer nofollow">study</a> of the cosmogenic radionuclides and noble gases conclude that it landed on Earth about 4,400 years ago. "NWA 869 represents a special and unusually large sample of the lithified regolith of the L‐chondrite parent body."
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Author Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA

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