Lunar Meteorites For Sale

 

 List Of Lunar Meteorites By Randy Korotev, see direct link > http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites_list_alumina.htm

 

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Last revised14-Oct-2009

 


Besides their rarity, lunar meteorites are of major scientific interest, and importance because they originate from areas of the Moon that were not sampled by the Apollo or Luna missions. Most lunaites in our collections have been blasted from the lunar highlands that cover the far side of the Moon. Only a few lunar meteorites have their origin from the smooth lowlands, the maria of the near side, which served as the preferred landing sites for the Apollo missions. Three major types of lunaites have been sampled in form of meteorites thus far: anorthositic highland breccias (LUN A), lunar mare basalts (LUN B), and mingled breccias (LUN M) containing both, mare material, and highland rocks
 
N
plot
name
when found or purchased
lunar rock type*
mass
(grams)
where found or purchased
Al2O3
(%)
FeO**
(%)
Th
(ppm)
thorium-poor, feldspathic breccias
1
Northwest Africa (NWA) 2998
2006
feldspathic breccia
163 
Algeria
2
Dhofar 081/280/910/1224
1999-2003
feldspathic glassy-matrix fragmental breccia
174+251+
142+5 = 572
Oman
3
[unnamed 19]
2006
feldspathic impact-melt breccia
5525
Oman
4
Northwest Africa (NWA) 2200
2004
feldspathic impact-melt breccia
552
Morocco
5
%
Dhofar 302
2001
feldspathic impact-melt breccia
4
Oman
6
Larkman Nunatak (LAR) 06638
2007
feldspathic breccia
5
Antarctica
 3.9
 0.4
7
Shişr 160
2008
feldspathic regolith breccia
101
Oman
8
Dhofar 026/
457/458/459/460/461/462/
463/464/465/466/467/468
2000/2001
feldspathic granulitic breccia
709
Oman
9
Dhofar 733
2002
feldspathic granulitic breccia
98
Oman
10
Dar al Gani 400
1998
feldspathic regolith breccia
1425
Libya
11
Graves Nunataks (GRA) 06157
2007
feldspathic breccia
0.8
Antarctica
 3.6
12
Northwest Africa (NWA) 482
2000?
feldspathic impact-melt breccia
1015
probably
Algeria
13
MacAlpine Hills (MAC) 88104/88105
1989
feldspathic regolith breccia
61+663 = 724
Antarctica
14
Dhofar 490/1084
2001/2003
feldspathic fragmental breccia
34+90 = 124
Oman
15
[unnamed 17]
2008
feldspathic impact-melt breccia
129?
Oman
29
4.1
0.4
16
Dhofar 1428
2006
feldspathic regolith breccia
213
Oman
17
Queen Alexandra Range (QUE) 93069/94269
1993/1994
feldspathic regolith breccia
21+3 = 24
Antarctica
18
Dhofar 303/305/306/307/
309/310/311/489/730/731/
908/909/911/950/1085
2001-2003
feldspathic impact-melt breccia
4+34+13+50+
81+11+4+34+108+
36+245+4+194+
22+197 = 1037
Oman
19