Part of Hall of Meteorites.
All are a rock type common in Earth's crust: basalt, a mixture of the minerals pyroxene, feldspar and olivine. Basalts are present in the rocky crusts of differentiated planets and asteroids throughout the solar system.
For example, Zagami (top) was blasted from the crust of the planet Mars by an impact about three million years ago. Camel Donga (middle) came from an asteroid, probably Vesta. The terrestrial basalt (bottom) is not a meteorite but basaltic lava from a Caribbean volcano-yet in composition and mineralogy, it is very similar to basaltic meteorites from the crusts of asteroids and other planets.
ZAGAMI
Fell October 3, 1962
Nigeria
SHE
AMNH 4734
CAMEL DONGA
Found January 1984
Camel Donga, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, Australia
EUC AMNH
4598
BASALT
Soufriere Volcano, Larakei Valley St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles
AMNH STV100