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Moon Rock Slice For Sale
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Large Full Slice Of A Moon Rock
Rock Slice For Sale

A LARGE FULL SLICE OF A MOON ROCK NWA 2995 - Lunar Feldspathic Breccia Algeria First discovered in 2005, this is a - Available at 2011 June Dallas Signature...

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Lunar Rock is a web site dedicated to meteorites from the moon and Mars from The Hupe Collection and more. There are also articles and sales of; Meteorites, Fossils, Minerals, Artifacts, Display Kits and other collectibles.

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Lunaite - lunar breccia (NW Africa 8586 Meteorite).This Moon rock has been classified as a "lunar feldspathic fragmental breccia": a poor lithologic label.All breccias have fragments so "fragmental breccia" is uninformative, unnecessary, & redundant.Also the dominant clast type isn't feldspar, it's anorthosite, a coarsely-crystalline textured, intrusive igneous rock dominated by the mineral anorthite.Some clasts are basalt from lunar lowlands.The anorthosite clasts come from the lunar…

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The Allende meteorite fell months before man's arrival on the Moon, so NASA's laboratories were ready to study the first Apollo 11 lunar rocks and Dr. Elbert King, who designed the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, exchanged with institutions around the world samples from Allende, allowing it to be analysed by international specialists. The Allende is one of the most fascinating, coveted and hard-to-find meteorites.

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Last January two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev’s office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 near Conception Junction (population 202) in northwest Missouri.Korotev, an expert in lunar meteorites, identified the stone as a piece of an asteroid. His lab also analyzed crystals within the rock to help identify its body of origin, eventually referring the meteorite hunters to UCLA for…

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I dung this up wedged in the corner of an ancient volcanic plum were it met prehistoric river sand and basalt it took an hour to dig it up the ground was like cement, super hard , it was a lot of work getting this from the spot back to the truck but look at it looks like a lunar meteorite that’s why I spent the time removing it.

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