Specimen number 1: This meteorite has a brown crust, is only very slightly magnetic to a most powerful magnet, has white clasts in a gray matrix and there is no sign of a basaltic texture or clast.

A lunar anorthositic breccia (Possibly Dho 490 ?)

Specimen number 2: This meteorite has a translucent black crust, has no metal, every square centimeter is filled with shock veins and the matrix is off-white with a greenish hue.

A basaltic eucrite (Possibly NWA 011 which supposedly hails from Mercury)

Specimen number 3: This meteorite has a translucent greenish-black crust, is only very slightly magnetic to a most powerful magnet and has white and black clasts situated in a light gray matrix.

A brecciated Howardite (Kapoeta ?)

Thanks for a great contest

Andre Bordeleau

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