Lunar meteorites, Moon Rocks
Mondmeteorite, 月の隕石, 月球陨石, météorite lunaire, la meteorite lunare, el meteorito lunar, Lunaire meteoriet)
(last update 15/12/13 Erich Haiderer)
View a list of fine lunar meteorites:
There are less than 50 distinct meteorites known today to be pieces of Earth's Moon (lunar meteorites).
The total weight of all recovered moon meteorites is 38kg (versus e.g.: tons of high cutting quality diamonds are found each year).
Such these moon meteorites are really unique and precious treasures from space!
Some important aspects to consider while choosing slices:
Although big surface are might be enough for pure demonstration
purposes of lithologies, thin slices often turn much easier to break or
weather over time.
Anyway sections of less than 1.5 mm thickness are due to often
decreased stability over time risky and often not meant to survive
eternity. From investment considerations e.g., I recommend thicker
slices, endpieces or individuals at best.
To give an example: If I would be JeweIIer e.g. I'd also recomment to
prefer genuine precious jewelry over those plated with a thin layer of
precious metal only. So substance and mass – yes they do count when it
comes to acquisations.
plattierten vor echtem Schmuck empfehlen. Es geht eben bei
langfristigen Überlegungen - nebst reiner Bildhaftigkeit des Objekts -
doch primär auch um Substanz und Masse.
How do this rocks from our moon get to earth?
m.freundlicher Genehmigung von Christian Pinter-Wiener Zeitung
How can we be sure our Meteorites are from Moon?
Mineral composition, chemical analysis results, isotope ratios, advanced optical studies, and textures of the lunar meteorites are all similar to those of samples collected on the lunar surface during Apollo missions.
Unlike meteorites originating from asteroids samples from the surface of earth's moon almost always contain free glass formed in space by impacts from space on the lunar surface.
Because of how the Moon formed, lunar highland material is composed predominantly of Anorthite which is a white, plagioclase feldspar that causes moons pale shimmering color.
Another plagioclase feldspar
Anortihisite is common on lunar highlands but
is quite uncommon on asteroids and on the surface of any other
planet or planetary satellites.
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A completely new rare (prov. from a different unique lunar region) and interesting (extremely alkali-rich unlike any other lunaite) lunar type:
Lunar KREEP impact melt breccia - Dho 1442
Find 2005; TkW: 120 g in total. Fusion crust absent.
Note: The mineralogy of this lunaite shows by far the highest Na2O value (appr. twice as high as
that of all other lunaites) as well as K2O content (K2O: 0.76) of all known lunar meteorites. Most Lunaites have a K2O value of a seventh or less (of that of o 1442. Only Calcalong Creek and NWA 773 have a higher K2O value than the other lunars but still only a third of that of Dho 1442
Petrography: (Ivanova
M.A., Lorenz C.A., and Nazarov M.A., Vernad.) Meteorite is a impact melt
breccia containing lithic clasts, mineral fragments, glassy spherules,
granulites and melt breccias embedded in a fine-grained melt matrix.
It's a polymict
breccia although the matrix/clasts ratio is varying
from section to section of the meteorite.
The lithic clasts population is
presented by anorthosites, gabbroes, olivine gabbro-norites,
gabbro-norites and norites. KREEPy and mare basalt clasts are present.
The size of the clasts ranges from 0.02-8 mm; the main minerals are pyroxene and feldspar; minor - olivine, silica, chromite, ilmenite, Ca-phosphate, troilite and FeNi metal.
Geochemistry: (Ivanova M.A. and Kononkova N.N. (Vernad.) Chemical compositions of mineral phases are: feldspar An73-96Ab3.7-24.8; clinopyroxene En2.6-69.5Wo5.6-42.8 (Fe/Mn = 64 at.), orthopyroxene En60.8-77.1Wo1.2-4.1 (Fe/Mn = 69 at.), olivine Fo39.9-72.2 (Fe/Mn = 93 at.); ilmenite (MgO 5.5%); FeNi metal (Ni 8.0%; Co 0.6%).
Average glassy matrix composition (wt%): SiO2 49.6; TiO2 1.76; Al2O3 17.4; Cr2O3 0.20; FeO 10.7; MnO 0.15; MgO 7.16; CaO 11.1; Na2O 0.88; K2O 0.76; P2O5 0.84.
Classification: Achondrite (lunar KREEP impact melt breccia with minor features of weathering.
Specimens: A total of 21.8 g of sample and two thin sections are on deposit at Vernad. An anonymous buyer holds the main mass of the meteorite.
Available:
0,38gr Sold; 0,022gr Sold; 0,012gr $29;Ask for availibility @fair and affordable price
eric@mars.li
Dho 1436 - Lunaite
Special: 1 part slice left - ask: erich.haiderer@chello.at
24.2 g was found . Available are wonderful slices: extremely beautiful (colour and contrast rich as well as some surprising features like intriguinglooking mineral clasts and large fresh, glassy vesicles!) of Dho 1436 - Lunaite for Euro 905/grm: 0.004g SOLD!; 0,07g Euro 75; 0,214gr ; 0,102gr sold!
As always all guarantees; Ask for availibility @fair and affordable price eric@mars.li
SaU 449 - Lunaite
No known pairing; Special: 1 part slice left - ask: erich.haiderer@chello.at
One tiny lunar droplet of 16g was found by a professional meteorite hunting team from Russia that scanned the area for over 5 years footstep by footstep.
Extensive searches over a long period of time didn't yield any further stone.
Ask for availibility @fair and affordable price eric@mars.li
Dhofar 302 seems to be more differentiated and also more rich in igneous and granulitic lithologies to any other known lunar meteorite in this part of the Dho region. Very low total mass of less than 4gr!
For more research data see on Randy Korotevs informative website: Randy Korotev, Dept o.Earth+Planetary Sciences Wash.University-St.Louis
TkW: only 3.83g
rich of large fresh glassy vesicles
A 213 g dark gray moon meteorite without fusion crust
was found in the DH0FAR desert region. Petrography: (T. Bunch and J. Wittke, NAU)
Clast-rich impact melt breccia (mingled) that consists mostly of light
to dark gray clasts of previously formed, plagioclase-rich breccias and
white lithic and mineral clasts of anorthositic rocks +plagioclase.
For more research data see on Randy Korotevs informative website: Randy Korotev, Dept o.Earth+Planetary Sciences Wash.University-St.Louis
Offer: 0,457g ca 17x9mm $457, part slice appr. 8x8mm square slice 0,184g $190; BB $25
DH0FAR 1443 - Anorthositic Breccia
DH0FAR 1443 18°25.00'N 54°25.50'E
Find: 12 April 2001
Lunar (anorthositic breccia)
History: On April 12, 2001, one stone was found by an anonymous finder in the DH0FAR region. Some years later three further tiny fragments were found within a few feet. The total mass of all stones is 36.7 g.
Physical characteristics: The rock is slightly weathered and relatively dark in hand specimen.
Petrography and mineralogy (A. Bischoff, IfP and E. H. Haiderer, Vienna): typical anorthositic breccia with light anorthositic clasts and abundant impact melt clasts embedded within a tough, partially molten matrix. This mostly devitrified matrix contains abundant vesicles and schlieren.
Based on the optical appearance the rock has some similarities with DH0FAR 081 , however, the coordinates do not favor pairing.
Mineral compositions: feldspar ranges from An 83–98 with a mean of An 94.8 ± 3.5 ; pyroxene is Fs 12–49 ; mean: Fs 30 ± 9 ; and olivine is Fa 19–52 ; mean: Fa 35.5 ± 9 .
Classification: Lunar (anorthositic breccia).
Type specimens: 7.4 g and one polished thin section ( IfP , Mün); an anonymous collector holds the main mass.
Sale: Dho1443-630mg 370€
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1.Moon Meteorite - with troctolithe clasts from the original old lunar crust and probably from the Northern region of the Far side of Moon:
4.5 Billion years ago: Earth struck by mars-sized object
4.4Billion years ago: Moon crust - radio date
This material dominates the northern
lunar farside – an area called the Feldspathic Highlands Terrane.
www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2003/pdf/1284
View Dr.Tomoko Arai and Prof. Hirosh Takedas (et al) detailed research results and informative publications:
SELENE exploration to better and further define the lunar origin and evolution
Dho 489 et al. as ground truth of the lunar farside crust.
Feldspathic lunar meteorites from the farside and production of their lunar simulants
More selected data on this on the web:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2004/pdf/1222.pdf
2.Lunar Meteorites from "maria" basalt plains (igneous rock types) on Earth's Moon:
NEA 003 Lunar mare basalt with impact-melt breccia
found 2000/11/22 in the sand desert. TkW: 124g
MASKELYNITE-RICH!
0.3g 6x8mm
DaG 996 - Lunar meteorite (fragmental breccia)
probably paired with DaG 262
Found 1999 May 14very strong mosaicism of plagioclase as well as abundant melt veins and melt pockets attest a high degree of shock;
Please email us your kind preorder requests mars@mars.li!
0,013g 5x4mm $55 ,
0,044 6x5mm; 0,55g sold; 0,26g 11x11mm; 1,008g 17x13mm complete slice
Available only through us!
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DaG 1042 kristalline lunare Schmelzbrekzie Physische Merkmale: Ein kompletter und stark regmaglyptischer Mondmeteorit von 801,432g, der mit (einigen Überresten) einer dunklen Schmelzkruste bedeckt war, wurde von einem anonymen Finder 1999 in der Dar Al Gani Region gefunden.Petrographie: kataklastische feldspatische (Plagioklas) feinkörnige kristalline Schmelzbreckzie. Glaslinien und Spherulen - .Mittlerer Verwitterungsgrad.Stücke: 30g + PTS, NIPR und JAXA, JapanFragen Sie nach Verfügbarkeit und fairen, günstigen Preisen: eric@mars.liz.B.: 2.864g Mondmeteoritenscheibe 36x25mm, 1,23g sold; 0,437g ca 16x10mm; 0,513g sold1,212g Endstück ca.14x12x7mm; 0,048g 8x6mm sold,0,513 sold, 0,12g Teilscheibe, 0,54g
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DaG1058 nice slice 0,9g, appr. 2.5mm thick 200€
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Dar+al+Gani+1058&sfor=names&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=Lunar+meteorites&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=54650
Dho 309 - Lunar meteorite - anorthositic impact melt breccia
Lunar meteorite (anorthositic impact melt breccia)
A grey, partly fusion-crusted 81.3 g moon meteorite was found
2002 January 14
Dho309 thin slice 209mg 218€
the meteorite is a clast-poor impact melt breccia; mineral fragments and lithic clasts are embedded in a matrix of devitrified glass. plagioclase An93-98Or0.1-0.4; olivine Fo75-89 (atomic Fe/Mn ~79); orthopyroxene En80-86Wo2-5; clinopyroxene En46-82Wo5-46
Ask for availibility of a wonderful bigger slice which displays typical texture and melt and shock features of lunar highland material @ fair and affordable price eric@mars.li
DHO 310: Lunar meteorite - POLYMICT BRECCIA
Lunar
meteorite (anorthositic impact melt breccia)
in Dho 310 were found high pressure minerals originating
from deep lunar crust or even the uppermost mantle region.
Here are some the links:
http://www.geokhi.ru/~meteorit/publication/demidova-ms2003-e.pdf
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/1063.pdf
A grey 10.8 g
moon meteorite was found 2002 January 15 in the Dhofar region.
Classification and mineralogy mineralogy (S. Demidova, Vernad; G. Kurat,
NHMV): fusion crust is absent.
The meteorite is a fragmental regolith breccia containing numerous mineral fragments and clasts of feldspathic rocks embedded in a devitrified glassy matrix; clasts of granulites and possible igneous rocks are abundant and have mainly anorthositic and troctolitic-noritic compositions, impact melt breccias and pyroxenitic clasts are also present;
plagioclase An96-99Or0.1-0.2; olivine Fo44-86 (atomic Fe/Mn ~79); orthopyroxene En59-88Wo1-5; clinopyroxene En33-77Wo5-47; accessory minerals are Ti-rich chromite, ulvöspinel, pleonaste, ilmenite (2-7 wt% MgO), armalcolite, silica, troilite, FeNi metal; composition of the impact melt matrix is MgO 4.8, CaO 18.5, Al2O3 29.1, SiO2 43.5, FeO 3.0 (wt%);
0,005g 3x4mm ; 0,018g 7x7mm, 1,45g 18x16mm
Lunar anorthositic breccia: Dho 490
Very
rare, top quality lunar meteorite (highly aesthetic), different in
appearance to other known lunar meteorites! (It is not paired to any
other known Dhofar Lunaites)
Description and references
Beautiful material with surprising texture, very fresh:
$4 only for a gem box with appr.3mg of dust to grain sized lunar material. (Note: due to these small sized grains the difference of lunar dust to terrestrial dust is difficult to prove! Lunar and terrestrial grains of pyroxenes, olivine or feldspar virtually look identical).
Only our Certificate of Authenticity and seal on the gem box proves that it is real moon dust.
Dho490-728mg 530$ highly beautiful
Ask for availibility of a wonderful bigger slice which displays typical texture and melt and shock features of lunar highland material
@ fair and affordable price eric@mars.li
Lunar Meteorite - Dho 306
A tiny meteorite of a total mass of 12.5g was found on June 29 2001
Available: ultrathin slices: 0,08g $59
Lunar Meteorite - Dho 307
A small meteorite of a total mass of 50gr was found on April 14th 2001
Ask for availibility @ fair and affordable price eric@mars.li
Lunar Meteorite, Lunar breccia - Dho 303
TkW: only 4.15g
0,015g 3x5mm; 0,108g end piece 8x4mm, 0.038 g slice
Ask for availibility @ guaranteed best price eric@mars.li
Lunar Meteorite, Lunar breccia - Dho 908
0,007g 3x4mm ; 0,016g 5x7mm, 1,344g 18x13mm
Ask for availibility @ fair price eric@mars.li
(from N.Classen)
Lunar Meteorite, Lunar breccia - Dho 925
inclusions of free magnetic metal,
paired with Dhofar 960 and Dhofar 961
NWA 2977 Lunar Gabbro
crusted part slice appr. 10x7mm square slice 0,225g $225
crusted part slice appr. 8x7mm square slice 0,134g $134
Ask for guaranteed best price eric@mars.li
Ultrathin slices
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NWA 2700 lunar Gabbro
For more research data see on Randy Korotevs informative website: Randy Korotev, Dept o.Earth+Planetary Sciences Wash.University-St.Louis
Sayh al Uhaymir 300, SaU 300
Lunar granulite breccia, granoblastic with poikilitic inclusions (S2)
An individual of 152.6 g was discovered by Thomas and Paul Kurtz of of Bartoschewitz natural science expedition team
on a gravel plateau of Miocene fresh-water limestone of Middle Fars group
Total recovered mass: 0.1526 kg; ind date: Feb. 21st, 2004
An 95.8
Class: Bartoschewitz
I can offer you a lot set of representative samples of 7 different, rare and unpaired! lunar meteorites mostly with a low total known mass.
for US$ 250/lot.This is a great rate price (the average rate turns out to be below €800/gr).
See below which types that may be included (images are just sample images - Actual samples you receive will look moderately different and may be different in shape and in size –smaller. Also the pieces from lot to lot may a bit vary)!
http://www.meteoris.de/img/ncc-lun/DaG1042-2.417g.JPG
http://www.meteoris.de/img/ncc-lun/Dho1436-1.691g.jpg
http://www.meteoris.de/img/ncc-lun/Dho026-0.612g.JPG
http://www.meteoris.de/img/ncc-lun/Dho303-0.531g.JPG
http://www.meteoris.de/img/ncc-lun/Dho489-1.550g.JPG
http://www.meteoris.de/img/ncc-lun/Dho490-1.205g.JPG
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