Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar diamonds (was Kalahari 008 and weathering)

2007-04-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:35:50 -0500, you wrote: >No diamonds have been seen, to my knowledge. The Moon contains very >little carbon. Again, most of the carbon on the lunar surface comes >either from carbonaceous chondrites or is implanted by solar >wind. Nowhere is the C concentration high en

Re: [meteorite-list] Lunar diamonds (was Kalahari 008 and weathering)

2007-04-19 Thread Randy Korotev
No diamonds have been seen, to my knowledge. The Moon contains very little carbon. Again, most of the carbon on the lunar surface comes either from carbonaceous chondrites or is implanted by solar wind. Nowhere is the C concentration high enough to make a diamond by impact pressure. Randy

[meteorite-list] Lunar diamonds (was Kalahari 008 and weathering)

2007-04-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:29:59 -0500, you wrote: >I don't really know "how they did it," but most brecciated lunar >meteorites do contain grains of metal - metal from asteroidal >meteorites that strike the Moon and that created the breccias in the This makes me think of something I've been wonderin