Bench Crater & Hadley Rille are not lunar meteorites. See the only published paper on this subject, and a fine one at that!
Rubin A.E. and Grossman J. N., 1998, What is a meteorite? The pursuit of a comprehensive definition. Meteorite!, v.4 no. 3, 24-25.
The adjective indicates the point of origin, not the body that the meteorite fell on. Like most meteorites that fall on earth, these two are asteroidal meteorites.
jeff
At 10:15 AM 1/15/2003, Bernd Pauli HD wrote:
Peter Marmet wrote:
> It's the only lunar meteorite to have a name instead of a number
Hello Steve, Peter and List!
Peter, you are not quite right ;-) There is another, albeit very
small one, the famous Hadley Rille, EH, recovered by Apollo 15
astronauts at Station 9, near Hadley Rille. This tiny specimen
contains euhedral and acicular enstatite grains + kamacite globules.
It was significantly impact melted when it accreted to the lunar
regolith (see Met.Bull. 81, 1997, A160).
And, last but not least, there is Bench Crater (CM1-like matrix)
brought back to Earth from the moon by the Apollo 12 astronauts.
There is only a single fragment 3mm x 1.5 mm in a thin section of
rock fragments and List member Allan Treiman says it is the only
rock from "on" the moon that contains water-bearing minerals.
Best regards,
Bernd
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