Moon Ring - Genuine Lunar Meteorite Jewelry - Size 7
On Offer: Moon Ring with center stone fashioned from the lunar meteorite NWA 15368 and set in sterling silver.
Center Stone: Lunar Fragmental Breccia
Ring Size: 7
| 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: |
This is 1 of 30 approved meteorites classified as Lunar (frag. breccia). [show all] Search for other: Lunar meteorites |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 Fa38.0±2.6, Fe/Mn=100±11.4, n=8; lo-Ca pyroxene Fs20.7±0.1,Wo4.0±0.1, Fe/Mn=54±2, n=2; pigeonite Fs30.1±5.2,Wo9.5±3.7, Fe/Mn=54±1, n=3; augite Fs16.9±1.1Wo36.5±2.8, Fe/Mn=45±1 n=2; plagioclase An95.9±3.1 Ab2.9±0.7 Or1.2±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 Table 0 Line 0: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We Also Recommend
