Ordinary Chondrite meteorite of large size, weight 393 g.

Chondrites are undifferentiated rock meteorites with the same chemical composition of planetesimals. These are those little cold bodies that have formed in the primordial solar system. This particular specimen has been handled, visually inspected, tested and verified as an ordinary LL type chondrite by Dr Ludovic Ferriere - the curator of the meteorite collection at the Vienna Natural History Museum which houses the largest Meteorite display in the world. It is believed that this Meteorite is not freshly fallen but probably has spent thousands of years in the desert before discovery.

Meteorites are not uncommon: Every year, tens of thousands, mostly small stones, survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Some are found and verified as meteorites. The collated database maintained by the International Society for Meteorites and Planetary Sciences has a count of 67,597 verified meteorites. In this sense Meteorites are not uncommon at all. But then again some estimate that there as much as 85,311 edition artworks were created by Warhol and his assistants. That is excluding the unique silkscreen prints onto paper. Put it in those terms a finding meteorite seems slightly less common than finding Warhol.

A chondrite meteorite is a stony (non-metallic) meteorite that has not been modified, by either melting or differentiation of the parent body. They are formed when various types of dust and small grains in the early Solar System accreted to form primitive asteroids over 4.5 billion years ago. It is estimated that Chondrites account for 85% of all Meteorites that come to earth. Wikipedia tells us there are currently over 27,000 chondrites in the world's collections.

Take it the next step: On the 22nd of October 2021 a journal article in Nature provided the first comprehensive quantitative overview of the NFT market and analysed a sample of 6.1 million trades of 4.7 million of NFTs between June 23, 2017, and April 27, 2021. These were obtained primarily from Ethereum and WAX blockchains. If you think about it that way any given Chondrite Meteorite in a collection on earth is at least 175 times scarcer than an NFT in the Nature researcher sample. So, a Chondrite Meteorite while not uncommon are by no means common when compared to something like an Andy Warhol much less ant any given NFT.

This particular Meteorite is a LL type chondrite. Only 10% of observed Chondrite meteorite falls are LL type. Only

8–9% of all meteorite falls are LL type Chondrite. The Meteoritical Society international record only has 7,891 LL Chondrites recorded and the vast majority weigh significantly less than 100 grams. NWA (north west Africa) specimens number 1,297. Only a handful appear to weigh more than this specimen.

Despite their scarcity, the study of Chondrite meteorites also provides important clues for understanding the origin and age of the Solar System, the synthesis of organic compounds, the origin of life and the presence of water on Earth. One of their characteristics is the presence of chondrules, which are round grains formed by distinct minerals, that normally constitute between 20% and 80% of a chondrite by volume. The vast majority of these meteorites are lumps of stone or metal. However, the analysis of some chondrite meteorites find chondrules that are rich in carbon - these are called carbonaceous chondrites.

These meteorites do not just contain inorganic carbon, but also organic molecules as complex as amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. They illustrate how chemical reactions in space give rise to complex precursors for life. Many scientists even believe rocks like this gave life the nudge it needed to exist when they crashed into a barren Earth 4.5 billion years ago.

Chondrites are largely unremarkable space rocks. They are by no means uncommon. None the less, it may well be that a meteorite similar to this broke the ground of a barren Earth and sowed the seeds of life itself.

Again, nothing special. This is just slightly rare than a Warhol.