Lunar Meteorite News Archive - 2/2007

September 16, 2007: Two older lunar meteorite finds from the Libyan Sahara have been officially named and approved by the NomCom of the Meteoritical Society, and published in The Meteoritical Bulletin Database:

Dar al Gani 1042 - LUN A - TKW 801.43g
Dar al Gani 1048 - LUN A - TKW 0.801g

Both stones were found in close proximity to the find locations of DaG 262 and DaG 996, and they are most likely paired with these earlier finds. The mini-lunar DaG 1048 is the most recent find, and probably one of the smallest lunar meteorites in existence. I purchased the entire stone back in 2003, and had it classified, more recently, by Dr. Anthony Irving and Dr. Scott Kuehner, UWS. Have a look at the great false-color BSE-image showing the vesicular matrix of DaG 1048.

August 31, 2007: Two new lunar meteorites finds from ANSMET/NASA field season 2006 have been reported in Vol 30, No. 2 of the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter:

Graves Nunataks 06157 - LUN A - TKW 0.788g

With dimensions of just 10x10x5 mm this is the smallest unpaired lunar that has been recovered, thus far. More detailed info, petrographic descriptions, including thin section pictures, can be found on the GRA 06157 page of the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter.

Larkman Nunatak 06638 - LUN M - TKW 5.293g

Another tiny stone that has been preliminary classified as a lunar anorthositic breccia. However, thin section pictures of LAR 06638 (AMN page) seem to reveal large basaltic clasts that would be more consistent with a mingled lunar (LUN M). That's why we preliminary list it as a mingled lunar breccia instead of as an anorthositic lunar breccia (LUN A). >> older archive entries >>