[meteorite-list] How Many Lunar Meteorites?

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:25:18 -0400
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I get photos of US lunaites emailed to me all of the time! LOL ;)



On 8/23/10, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:
> I also noticed, there are no Lunar meteorites recovered in the USA. Yet...
>
> Does this still hold true?
>
> Eric
>
>
> On 8/23/2010 11:53 AM, Randy Korotev wrote:
>> Dear Eric:
>>
>> My alphanumeric list contains 140 named stones,
>>
>> http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites_list_alpha.htm
>>
>> with the caveat that some do not actually have official names yet
>> (e.g., "Unnamed 12"). They're on the list because I've analyzed them
>> and know them to be lunar. That's the main reason that my number,
>> 140, is larger than the MetBull number, 130. It's my hope that all
>> the unnamed get official names someday.
>>
>> "Does this mean there are 130 Lunar meteorites that have been
>> recovered and classified, Ever?" Stones, yes; meteorites, no.
>>
>> My composition-ordered list has only 68 meteorites because of known or
>> strongly-suspected pairings.
>>
>> http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites_list_alumina.htm
>>
>> Norbert Classen keeps close tabs on this and has 67 on his list (he
>> and I both know about one that is on my list but may not be on his
>> list yet):
>>
>> http://www.meteoris.de/luna/list.html
>>
>> So, ~68 is the total number of known lunar meteorites. That
>> information is not easily available from the MetBull database. It
>> sometimes takes years to establish that different named stones are or
>> are not paired.
>>
>> A confusion for your calculations is that practically every individual
>> lunar and martian meteorite stone gets it's own name and line-item in
>> the MetBull database whereas all Allende stones have one name.
>>
>> Randy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 12:40 PM 8/23/2010 Monday, you wrote:
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> I know this has been talked about on-list but... I keep getting this
>>> question, or people that say they have found a "Lunar" meteorite. I'm
>>> wondering how many there actually are. I've heard numbers thrown
>>> about haphazardly, but no one has been able to give me a clear and
>>> concise answer.
>>>
>>> The Met-Bull has "...130 records found for meteorites with historical
>>> types that contain "Lunar"...'
>>>
>>> Does this mean there are 130 Lunar meteorites that have been
>>> recovered and classified, Ever? Or is my search flawed? (as a side
>>> note, it also says there are "...92 records found for meteorites with
>>> historical types that contain "Martian"...")
>>>
>>> Dr. Randy Korotev's "List of Lunar Meteorites" on the Washinton
>>> University website has the number at 140.
>>> http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites_list_alpha.htm
>>>
>>> Just for giggles I wanted to know how many total classified
>>> meteorites there actually were on the planet.
>>>
>>> "...39146 valid meteorite names; 11959 provisional names; 4589
>>> full-text writeups..."
>>>
>>> That's a whopping 51,105 classifications. Wow!
>>>
>>> Doing some simple math, 130 Lunar meteorites out of 51,105 total
>>> classifications means that "Lunars" only makeup about 0.254% of the
>>> total number of meteorite ever classified. (0.180% for Martian
>>> meteorites).
>>>
>>> Are these number correct?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Eric
>>>
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