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Re: Meteorites Found in Lunar Samples?



At 02:42 PM 5/5/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Here is an entry from the The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 81, 1997 July
>which may be of interest in this discussion.
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>Martin
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>Here is the URL if anyone is interested:
>http://www.uark.edu/studorg/metsoc/metbull/bull81-f.htm
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>Hadley Rille
>Lunar: 26º26.0'N 3º39.33'E
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>       The Moon
>       Found 1971 July-August
>       Enstatite chondrite (EH)
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>An object in the 1-2 mm size fraction of soil sample 15602,29 was recovered
>by Apollo 15 astronauts at Station 9, near Hadley Rille; the original mass,
>estimated from the thin section, was ~3 mg. Mineralogy and classification
>(Haggerty, 1972, and A. Rubin, UCLA): contains enstatite, kamacite
>(2.9-3.2% Si), niningerite, silica, schreibersite, troilite, albite, and
>daubreelite. Specimen: Lunar Sample Curator, JSC.
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Don't forget Bench Crater:


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