[meteorite-list] What a lunar thrill - again ! :-)

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Apr 10 18:37:15 2005
Message-ID: <005201c53e1d$d8aff0f0$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Bernd and all, there is NO resin on this meteorite, never has, never will
be. It is a regolith breccia, full of many types of Lunar material, many
different scientists are working on it, and when new papers are released, I
will inform everyone. It is spectacular as I think Bernd is pointing out.
By the way, make sure you get the upcoming issue of Meteorite Magazine,
there might just be a note in there about this new Lunar..............
Mike
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From: <bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de>
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:34 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] What a lunar thrill - again ! :-)


> Hello List,
>
> Those fortunate enough to own a piece or a slice of M. Farmer's
> Dhofar 1180 LUN-A will have noticed that it is one of the darkest
> lunars in our collections.
>
> I was amazed to detect numerous "glassy-looking" clasts when
> I wandered over it with my Russian MBS-10 stereo microscope.
>
> One of these may be epoxy resin (Mike ...?) because it is crystal-
> clear like the melt pockets you find in some of the NWA 482 lunars.
>
> But several others are a pleasing tan color - translucent like smoky
> quartz crystals that were not exposed to radioactive radiation too long.
>
> So, maybe, Dhofar 1180 may turn out to be a heavily shocked lunar
> meteorite and I was looking at higly maskelynitized plagioclase
> crystals or some other shocked minerals and the overall dark matrix
> may be due to shock darkening.
>
> How I would love to know which cratering / impact event on "radiant
> Diana*," "the goddess of love and lunacy*" produced this and other
> lunar beauties!
>
> * Paul Auster: Moon Palace
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Bernd
>
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