Lunar Meteorite

Meteorite Hills 01210

Antarctica

Meteorite Hills 01210.

(photo credit: NASA)

Fragments of MET 01210. Tick marks are 1 mm apart.

(photo credit: Randy Korotev)

from The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 88, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39, A215–A272 (2004)

Classification from Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2004

Meteorite Hills 01210

Location: Meteorite Hills
Field No.: 13805
Dimensions (cm): 4.0x2.2x1.7
Mass: 22.83 g

Lunar-Anorth. Breccia

[Randy's note: Although classified here as an anorthositic breccia, the meteorite is a breccia composed mainly of mare basalt, but with some anorthositic material (the white clasts in the photos above).]

Macroscopic Description: Cecilia Satterwhite. 30% of this meteorite’s exterior has brown/black fusion crust with some oxidation. The interior is a light gray matrix with abundant clasts. Minor weathering is visible. Gray, white and cream colored inclusions are visible on the exterior and interior.

Thin Section (,2) Description: Tim McCoy, Linda Welzenbach. The section shows a groundmass of comminuted pyroxene (up to 3 mm) and plagioclase with fine- to coarse-grained basaltic clasts ranging up to 1 mm. Most of the pyroxene is augite with compositions ranging from Fs_37-84Wo_13-36 (Fe/Mn ~ 70), and plagioclase An_90-96. The meteorite is lunar, probably an anorthositic regolith breccia.  

Randy Says…

Although a breccia consisting mainly of basalt, it has some compositional and mineralogical features that suggest it is related to unbrecciated basalts Asuka 881757, Yamato 793169, and MIL 05035, all of which are likely launch paired (several rocks blasted off the Moon by one impact).

More Information

Meteoritical Bulletin Database

MET 01210

Map

ANSMET Location Map

References

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Arai T., Misawa K., and Kojima H. (2007) Lunar meteorite MIL 05035: mare basalt paired with Asuka-881757 (abstract). In Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII, abstract no. 1582, 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston.

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Prepared by: Randy L. Korotev

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

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Last revised: 9 January 2018