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Re: Meteorites Found in Lunar Samples?
Jeff Grossman schrieb:
> 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.
> >
> >Martin
> >
> >Here is the URL if anyone is interested:
> >http://www.uark.edu/studorg/metsoc/metbull/bull81-f.htm
> >
> >Hadley Rille
> >Lunar: 26º26.0'N 3º39.33'E
> >
> > The Moon
> > Found 1971 July-August
> > Enstatite chondrite (EH)
> >
> 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.
> Don't forget Bench Crater:
>
> From Graham et al. (1985)
>
> Bench Crater
> Apollo 12 landing site, Oceanus Procellarum, Moon
> Stone. Carbonaceous chondrite, anomalous (C?)
> A fragment found in soil sample 12037 brought to the earth
> from the moon by the Apollo 12 mission has a matrix
> similar to that of CI chondrites, H.Y.McSween,Jr., Earth
> Planet. Sci. Lett., 1976, 31, p.193.
>
> -jeff
RUBIN A.E. (1996) An enstatite chondrite from the Moon (Meteoritics
31-4, 1996, A119).
RUBIN A.E. (1997) The Hadley Rille enstatite chondrite and its
agglutinate-like rim: Impact melting during accretion to the Moon
(Meteoritics 32-1, 1997, 135-141).
M.E. ZOLENSKY (1997) Structural water in the Bench Crater chondrite
returned from the Moon (Meteoritics 32-1, 1997, 015-018).
Regards, Bernd
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