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Lunar Meteorite: [unnamed 17]

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Both sides of a slice of unnamed 17 (millimeter ticks for scale)
The vesicles indicate that this meteorite is an impact-melt breccia.
Some of the vesicles are full of terrestrial alteration products (probably Ca and Sr carbonates and sulfates)
(Photos by Randy Korotev. Click on image for enlargement.)

Closeup


It's a rather typical feldspathic lunar meteorite, except that it's an impact-melt breccia with a lot of vesicles.

We'll say more about this one when the owner gives us the "OK."
  

 

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Prepared by:

Randy L. Korotev

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

Please don't contact me about the meteorite you think you’ve found until you read this and this.

e-mail: korotev@wustl.edu

Last revised: 10-Jul-2009