Lunar Meteorite NWA 4881

Northwest Africa 4881 Mauritania or Algeria Find: 2005 Achondrite (lunar, granulitic breccia) History: Found in 2005 and purchased by Stefan Ralew in January 2007 from a dealer in Quarzazate, Morocco. Physical characteristics: A single, broken, irregular conical stone (606 g) partially covered by translucent, pale greenish fusion crust and with a pale gray-brown interior (Fig. 2). Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fine-grained recrystallized breccia composed of larger plagioclase grains (converted partially to maskelynite) poikilitically enclosing very small grains (mostly 30-80 microns) of low-Ca pyroxenes, olivine, Ti-chromite, ilmenite, troilite and metal. Mineral compositions and Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa40.4-58.8, FeO/MnO = 91-100), plagioclase (An96.1-98Or