Mizuki Silver Moon Ring - Lunar Meteorite Jewelry - Size 6

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Mizuki Moon Ring

Mizuki Moon Collection. Mizuki, a Japanese name meaning "beautiful moon".

Mizuki Silver Moon Ring's Center Stone: Lunar Meteorite - Real piece of the Moon. A lunar fragmental breccia meteorite named NWA 15368

Ring size: 6

Center stone dimensions: 7.30 mm x 6.20 mm

Paren body: The Moon - this is material ejected from our moon when it was hit by another meteorite and became a meteorite itself when it hit the Earth.

Center Stone Official name: NWA 15368

Type: Lunar Fragmental Breccia

Year Found: 2021

Country: Northwest Africa

Description: Beautiful and unique, Mizuki Silver Moon ring with center stone fashioned from the lunar meteorite NWA 15368 and set in sterling silver.

Each ring has a unique center stone and it is a completely unique part of the Moon. No two rings are exactly alike. The center stone for this ring was ejected from the Moon and has been free-hand shaped to find the best qualities in each area of the stone, and making every piece totally unique.

The story: Our moon takes a lot of hits. This is evidenced by the millions of craters that cover the moon's surface. Thankfully the bombardments have slowed down considerably in the last few hundred thousand years, but they still do occur from time to time. Lunar meteorites are material ejected from our Moon's surface when it gets hit by a meteorite. If the impact has enough energy, some of the ejecta gets thrown so far it escapes the Moon's gravity becoming meteoroids hurtling through space. Some of those lunar meteoroids have the potential to eventually fall into Earth's gravity well and go screaming through the atmosphere to hit the surface. Once they hit the Earth's surface, they earn the designation of being a meteorite. Much later, perhaps thousands of years later, an even smaller fraction of the meteorites that didn't fall into the oceans or onto unrecoverable terrain, are recovered by nomads and others who happen to find them. Nothing short of miraculous odds. To describe them as rare, is perhaps an understatement.

What you get: solid sterling silver ring with genuine lunar meteorite center stone, size 6, as shown, and Certificate of Authenticity.

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Northwest Africa 15368

Basic information

Name: Northwest Africa 15368
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation: NWA 15368
Observed fall: No
Year found: 2021
Country: (Northwest Africa)
Mass: 17.84 kg

Classification
history:

Meteoritical Bulletin:

(2023)

Lunar (frag. breccia)

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Comments:

Approved 12 Nov 2022

Writeup

Writeup from MB 111:

Northwest Africa 15368 (NWA 15368)

(Northwest Africa)

Purchased: January 2021

Classification: Lunar meteorite (frag. breccia)

History: Found in Mali by camel shepherds in January 2021 and subsequently purchased by Ahmed Salek and sold to an anonymous collector in the US.

Physical characteristics: A single stone with a dark exterior, one side partially covered in caliche. Cut surface reveals a fragmental breccia with many lithic clasts set in a glassy dark-gray ground mass.

Petrography: (D. Dickens, NMMS and A. S. Bell, CUB) This meteorite is a clast-rich polymict breccia with subhedral lithic fragments embedded in a fine-grained groundmass. Fragmental clasts sizes range from <0.1 mm to >6 mm and are primarily comprised of plagioclase, low-Ca pyroxene, pigeonite, augite, and olivine. Minor phases include kamacite and ilmenite. This meteorite is shocked with impact melt textures present.

Geochemistry: (D. Dickens, NMMS and A. S. Bell, CUB) olivine Fa_38.0±2.6, Fe/Mn=100±11.4, n=8; lo-Ca pyroxene Fs_20.7±0.1,Wo_4.0±0.1, Fe/Mn=54±2, n=2; pigeonite Fs_30.1±5.2,Wo_9.5±3.7, Fe/Mn=54±1, n=3; augite Fs_16.9±1.1Wo_36.5±2.8, Fe/Mn=45±1 n=2; plagioclase An_95.9±3.1Ab_2.9±0.7Or_1.2±3.3, n=15;

Classification: Lunar fragmental breccia

Specimens: 40 g with probe mount on deposit at Cascadia, 40 g with probe mount on deposit at CUB, anonymous collector holds the main mass.

Data from:
  MB111
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Place of purchase:	Mali
Date:	P January 2021
Mass (g):	17840
Pieces:	1
Class:	Lunar (frag. breccia)
Shock stage:	high
Weathering grade:	moderate
Fayalite (mol%):	38.0±2.6
Ferrosilite (mol%):	20.7±0.1, 30.1±5.2, 16.9±1.1
Wollastonite (mol%):	4.0±0.1, 9.5±3.7, 36.5±2.8
Classifier:	Dustin Dickens, NMMS and Aaron S. Bell, CUB
Type spec mass (g):	40
Type spec location:	Cascadia
Main mass:	Anonymous collector
Comments:	Submitted by Dustin Dickens

Institutions
and collections

Cascadia: Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Room 17 Cramer Hall, 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, United States; Website (institutional address; updated 28 Oct 2011)
CUB: Daniel Ozdín, Mineralogical Museum of Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia (institutional address; updated 2 Dec 2018)

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