One more thought and then I'll give it a rest. Regarding the current
supply of lunar meteorites (and to a lesser degree martian
meteorites), the only place where these are being found right now is
NWA. There are virtually no lunars coming out of Antarctica, and only
the sporadic martian. There still has never been a documented lunar
fall, never a North American lunar find. People, these objects are
super rare! Maybe the market is flooded right now, but I doubt if this
NWA flood is sustainable. Once these bargain lunars get bought up
and squirreled away in collections, say a few years from now, the
prices will go back up and they will continue to be seen as among the
very rarest meteorite types.
Carl Agee
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Carl B. Agee
Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
MSC03 2050
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-1126
Tel: (505) 750-7172
Fax: (505) 277-3577
Email: a...@unm.edu
http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Carl Agee a...@unm.edu wrote:
Here is another measure of current meteorite supply.
Angrites seem to be among the most scarce.
-Carl Agee
MetBull 103
2174 Ordinary chondrites
130 HED achondrites
113 Carbonaceous chondrites
41 Ureilites
27 Lunar meteorites
24 Enstatite chondrites
21 Iron meteorites
15 Primitive achondrites
11 Mesosiderites
10 Martian meteorites
6 Rumuruti chondrites
5 Ungrouped achondrites
2 Enstatite achondrites
1 Relict meteorite
1 Pallasite
1 Angrite
MetBull 102
2611 Ordinary chondrites
264 HED achondrites
124 Carbonaceous chondrites
30 Ureilites
20 Martian meteorites
16 Primitive achondrites
16 Rumuruti chondrites
15 Mesosiderites
12 Iron meteorites
10 Lunar meteorites,
9 Enstatite chondrites
4 Enstatite achondrites
4 Pallasites
4 Ungrouped achondrites
2 Angrites
MetBull 101
2308 Ordinary chondrites
156 Carbonaceous chondrites
63 HED achondrites
17 Relict meteorites
16 Rumuruti chondrites
15 Enstatite chondrites
15 Ureilites
10 Iron meteorites
9 Lunar meteorites
9 Primitive achondrites
8 Ungrouped achondrites
7 Mesosiderites
4 Martian meteorites
2 Pallasites
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Carl B. Agee
Director and Curator, Institute of Meteoritics
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
MSC03 2050
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131-1126
Tel: (505) 750-7172
Fax: (505) 277-3577
Email: a...@unm.edu
http://meteorite.unm.edu/people/carl_agee/
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