CK Group

The meteorites of this group are named for Karoonda, a meteorite that fell in Australia in 1930. There are only about 20 different CK members known if we exclude all the pairings that have been found so far in the hot deserts of Africa and on the blue-ice fields of Antarctica. Initially, those meteorites were regarded as members of the CV group and were designated as CV4-5. However, more recently, they have been given their own group since they differ in some respect from all the other carbonaceous chondrites.

The chondrites of the CK group belong to the petrologic types 3 - 6, although most of them have been classified as CK4. They are of a dark-grey or black appearance due to a high percentage of magnetite that is dispersed in a matrix of dark silicates, consisting of iron-rich olivine and pyroxene.

NWA 765- Fezna Found Dec. 2000, Morocco TKW 767 g CK4/5 bluish fresh matrix NWA765 is certainly the freshest of all hot desert CK !
				NWA 765 00 Main mass  Complete crusted specimen of 159.80gr   Price on request
Nwa 765 03 73 gr Superbe half stone with fresh crust and matrix ! Price on request
				Nwa 765 04 13.20 gr Nice endcut with very fresh blueish matrix covered of crust on the back ! SOLD
Nwa 765 05 9.21 gr Triangular endcut with a patch of fusion crust, SOLD
				Nwa 765 06 3.90 gr Very thin endcut with part of crust and fresh matrix ! Sold
Nwa 765 07 3.03 gr Nice slice with a patch of fusion crust, nice and fresh bluish matrix SOLD