[meteorite-list] How Many Lunar Meteorites?

From: Thunder Stone <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:34:51 -0700
Message-ID: <SNT117-W1164B44D5C75A76BFF8095D2820_at_phx.gbl>

Feldsparic breccias are very common throughout the SW deserts and (I believe) in many other areas, and these look very similar to luners.? I think it's going to have to have a fusion crust.? If its sandblasted or very weathered, it may never be found.

Greg S.

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> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:25:18 -0400
> From: meteoritemike at gmail.com
> To: eric at meteoritesusa.com
> CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How Many Lunar Meteorites?
>
> I get photos of US lunaites emailed to me all of the time! LOL ;)
>
>
>
> On 8/23/10, Meteorites USA 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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