[meteorite-list] New Lunar Meteorite Found In Antarctica

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Nov 29 14:10:13 2004
Message-ID: <200411291910.LAA08500_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/3954699/detail.html

'Special' Rock Turns Out To Be Moon Chunk
Associated Press
November 29, 2004

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- University of New Mexico researcher Barbara Cohen
now knows for certain that the rock she found while trolling the barren
Antarctica landscape is special.

She and a team of geologists picked up a chunk of the moon -- one of
only about 30 ever found on Earth.

They found it about a year ago, but the analysis wasn't finished until
recently.

Cohen said she was elated when she found out it was from the moon.

Cohen is an assistant research professor at the UNM Institute of
Meteoritics.

She and the geologists collected the fist-sized meteorite on a six-week
trip during the Antarctic summer, which is December and January.

With the analysis complete, Cohen is applying to get a chunk of the rock
back from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Received on Mon 29 Nov 2004 02:10:09 PM PST