Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-30 Thread Randy Korotev
...@hotmail.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com 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

Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-30 Thread Thunder Stone
...@wustl.edu 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

[meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-29 Thread Thunder Stone
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-29 Thread Randy Korotev
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-29 Thread Thunder Stone
. 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

Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-29 Thread Larry Atkins
: [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

Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-29 Thread Thunder Stone
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-29 Thread Dave Myers
be found, Good luck to all! dave Myers - Original Message From: Thunder Stone stanleygr...@hotmail.com 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

Re: [meteorite-list] Crystals in Lunar Meteorites...?

2010-12-29 Thread Dave Myers
To: Thunder Stone stanleygr...@hotmail.com; Larry thetop...@aol.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com 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