Pendant's Center Stone: Lunar Meteorite - Real Piece of the Moon. A Feldspathic Lunar Breccia Meteorite

Pendant Setting: 14Kt solid gold

Description: Unique Moon Pendant with center stone fashioned from a piece of the Moon. Made from the beautiful lunar meteorite NWA 11788 and set in 14Kt Solid Gold. Center piece has been polished on both sides.

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Dimensions not including bail: Approximately 27.75mm x 27.75mm x 3.6mm

Dimensions including bail: Approximately 38.48mm x 27.75mm x 6.09mm

Meteorite Type: Lunar Feldspathic Breccia

Official Name: NWA 11788

Year Found: 2017

Country of Origin: Mali

Parent body: The Moon - this is material was ejected from our Moon when it was hit by another meteorite and became a meteorite itself when it hit the Earth. It is an authenticated piece of the Moon.

This beautiful moon pendant has been hand crafted and assembled in the US by AZ based artisan Josh Eisler. Each pendant has a unique center stone and it is a completely unique part of the Moon. No two pendants are exactly alike. The center stone for this pendant was ejected from the Moon, landed in Earth and was purchased in Mali by Dustin Dickens from a meteorite hunter. This meteorite was classified by the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico. The center stone has been free-hand shaped to find the best qualities in each area of the stone, and making every piece totally unique. The pendant is set in 14Kt solid Gold.

What you get: 14K Gold Pendant with genuine lunar meteorite center stone, as shown, and double sided color 5"x7" Certificate of Authenticity signed by the Curator of Collections.

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Northwest Africa 11788

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 11788
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 11788
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2017
Country: Mali
Mass: 10.44 kg

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:		(2018)	Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:			Lunar (feldsp. breccia) [explanation]

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Comments:

Approved 26 May 2018

Writeup

Writeup from MB 107:

Northwest Africa 11788 (NWA 11788)

Mali

Purchased: 2017

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)

History: Purchased in Mali by Dustin Dickens from anonymous meteorite hunter.

Physical characteristics: Many dark visually identical appearing pieces, with masses ranging from ~2 kg to many sub-g fragments, showing no fusion crust. Saw cut reveals a finely fragmental breccia with white feldspathic clasts set in a dark gray ground mass with metal flecks and minor vesiculation appearing throughout.

Petrography: (C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite is a breccia of fragmental pyroxene, olivine, plagioclase grains. There are domains that are fine-grained and cataclastic with shock melt and vesicles.

Geochemistry: (C. Agee, UNM) olivine Fa: 31.2±9.4, Fe/Mn=95±7, n=12; clinopyroxene Fs_36.0±10.0Wo_22.2±8.8, Fe/Mn=60±5, n=12; plagioclase An_93.0±1.8, n=7; Shock melt (20 _m defocused electron beam, proxy for bulk meteorite composition): SiO₂=43.2±1.7, TiO₂=0.46±0.20, Al₂O₃=24.2±3.6, Cr₂O₃=0.23±0.08, MgO=7.8±1.4, FeO=8.0±3.2, MnO=0.10±0.05, CaO=14.2±1.4, Na₂O=0.35±0.23, K₂O=0.08±0.05 (all wt%), n=4.

Classification: Lunar feldspathic breccia

Specimens: 28.9 g including a probe mount on deposit at UNM, Dustin Dickens holds the main mass.

Data from:
  MB107
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Place of purchase:	Mali
Date:	P 2017
Mass (g):	10441
Pieces:	Many
Class:	Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:	high
Weathering grade:	moderate
Fayalite (mol%):	31.2±9.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):	36.0±10.0
Wollastonite (mol%):	22.2±8.8
Classifier:	C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):	28.9
Type spec location:	UNM
Main mass:	Dustin Dickens
Comments:	Field name DD-21; submitted by C. Agee, UNM