Dear all,
For research purposes we are looking for a tiny chip from the interior of the
Calcalong Creek lunar meteorite.
Please drop me an email off list if you think you may be able to provide this.
Cheers,
Romain
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Romain Tartèse
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Institut de Minéralogie, de
Hello Steve,
here the well known story of Calcalong Creek (can be found on Rob Elliott's
page of Fernlea meteorites)
Calcalong Creek (Wiluna District,Western Australia) Lunar, impact melt
breccia
Found after 1960, recognised 1990:
Total known weight 19g
It's the only lunar meteorite to have a
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
Bernd and list:
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
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