AW: [meteorite-list] Meteorites on the moon

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Sep 1 08:47:35 2006
Message-ID: <20060901124733.36322.qmail_at_web50912.mail.yahoo.com>

Fascinating piece of info Martin

Even as I clicked "send" on my last post I had a
nagging thought that there really ought to be tiny
little fragments of all the types in the regolith
somewhere. I know NWA3136 is meant to have microscopic
bits of iron in it. Is this from meteorite impact does
anyone know?

Rob McC

--- Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de>
wrote:

> There wer even 2 meteorites brought back from Moon
> say the Catalogue:
>
> Bench Crater
> Was an CM1 fragment in soil sample 12037 collected
> from Apollo 12
>
> And
>
> Hadley Rille,
>
> A fragment of 3mg in soil sample 15602 from Apollo
> 15.
> Was EH.
>
> Humm perhaps we all should check our regolth
> brecciae and HEDs to get an
> entry for each xenolithic clast in the Bulletin :-)
>
> Buckleboo!
> Martin
>
>
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> McCafferty
> Gesendet: Freitag, 1. September 2006 10:01
> An: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites on the moon
>
> Couple of points
>
>
> >>One small meteorite was recovered in the Apollo
> Program (Hadley Rill?).(Details anyone?) Didn't it
> possess impact pockmarks?
>
> Yes. There's one of the Apollo photos clearly shows
> an
> ipact mark. A tiny crater in a large rock. I believe
> this shows that there's not likely to be much of
> anything left on the moon if it hits it.
>
> Statistically, if memory serves me right, lunar
> impacts impacts are rarer than Earth ones due to the
> weak gravity of the moon and not just it's smaller
> cross-section.
>
> Rob McC
>
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