Hello Mike and All ! Today I got my 0.62-gram Dhofar 1180 (LUN-A) from Mike Farmer in a carefully packaged membrane box. It arrived well-documented with an in-situ photo of the original wedge- or pick-axe shaped mass, another photo showing Mike in the Oman Desert and holding his new treasure, and a thin section photo showing the bewilderung variety of minerals and clasts in this microbreccia.
See also David Weir's excellent website* where you can have a look at both the colorful matrix and the in-situ photograph of this new lunar that seems to be unpaired to the other lunar Dhofars but may be related to several Antarctic lunar meteorites: MAC 88105, QUE 93069, QUE 94269 (just my uneducated guess so let's wait for the official results). * http://www.geocities.com/~dweir/ What a thrill to hold and behold a piece of the Moon, especially when you look up at our celestial neighbor with such a piece in your hands! Thank you Mike ! Best wishes, Bernd ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
