Fascinating piece of info Martin Even as I clicked "send" on my last post I had a nagging thought that there really ought to be tiny little fragments of all the types in the regolith somewhere. I know NWA3136 is meant to have microscopic bits of iron in it. Is this from meteorite impact does anyone know?
Rob McC --- Martin Altmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There wer even 2 meteorites brought back from Moon > say the Catalogue: > > Bench Crater > Was an CM1 fragment in soil sample 12037 collected > from Apollo 12 > > And > > Hadley Rille, > > A fragment of 3mg in soil sample 15602 from Apollo > 15. > Was EH. > > Humm perhaps we all should check our regolth > brecciae and HEDs to get an > entry for each xenolithic clast in the Bulletin :-) > > Buckleboo! > Martin > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Im Auftrag von Rob > McCafferty > Gesendet: Freitag, 1. September 2006 10:01 > An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites on the moon > > Couple of points > > > >>One small meteorite was recovered in the Apollo > Program (Hadley Rill?).(Details anyone?) Didn't it > possess impact pockmarks? > > Yes. There's one of the Apollo photos clearly shows > an > ipact mark. A tiny crater in a large rock. I believe > this shows that there's not likely to be much of > anything left on the moon if it hits it. > > Statistically, if memory serves me right, lunar > impacts impacts are rarer than Earth ones due to the > weak gravity of the moon and not just it's smaller > cross-section. > > Rob McC > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list