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Lunette Moon Ring - Lunar Meteorite Jewelry - Size 6.8
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- $ 600.00
Lunette Ring
Our Lunette design, from the French word for "little moon", is a beautiful ring with a unique center stone hand carved from a real piece of the Moon. A lunar fragmental breccia meteorite named NWA 15368.
US Ring size: 6.8
Center stone dimensions: 9.63 mm x 7.42 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, the Lunette ring's center stone has been 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, US size 6.8, as shown, and Certificate of Authenticity.
We offer a 100% no questions asked 30 day return policy.
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Basic information |
Name: Northwest Africa 15368 Abbreviation: NWA 15368 Observed fall: No Year found: 2021 Country: (Northwest Africa) Mass: 17.84 kg |
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Approved 12 Nov 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. |
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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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