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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:51:46 -0500
From: thetop...@aol.com
Hi Greg, Randy, List,
I have been wondering the same thing since I've recently cut a few of
my lunar suspects
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?
Greg;
Most lunar rocks are impact breccias - rocks made up of bits and
pieces of older rocks. The pieces are called clasts and they may be
suspended in a matrix of crystallized impact melt, glass, or
shocked-compressed
List:
I hope everyone had a prosperous and joyful Holiday Season.
I was wondering something:
Do lunar meteorites ever contain crystals? Or are the just crushed rock and
lunar soil compacted together? From what I've been able to find is that any
basalt type rock containing white feldspar
Greg:
All lunar meteorites contain mineral crystals. The basalts (both
breccias and unbrecciated) are composed mainly of crystals of
pyroxene and plagioclase feldspar. Some contain olivine, and all
contain minor ilmenite and related iron-titanium minerals. The
feldspathic breccias are
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:05:38 -0600
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
From: koro...@wustl.edu
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?
Greg:
All lunar meteorites contain mineral crystals. The basalts (both
breccias
: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?
Thanks Randy:It does to some degree and thanks for the links.I keep
reading that lunar rocks contain clasts, which I interpret as a
grouping of crystals mashed together from a previous rock, and not
individual crystals. I also read grains too.Let
Thank you Larry - Sometimes you just can't get your thoughts to the fingertips.
Greg S.
To: stanleygr...@hotmail.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:51:46
be found, Good luck to all!
dave Myers
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To: Larry thetop...@aol.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 7:19:47 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?
Thank you Larry
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Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 8:16:43 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?
Hi Larry,Greg and list
here are links and photos of all Lunar meteorites that were
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