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  2. Lunar meteorite - Wikipedia

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    Most lunar meteorites are launched from the Moon by impacts making lunar craters of a few kilometers in diameter or less. [6] No source crater of lunar meteorites has been positively identified, although there is speculation that the highly anomalous lunar meteorite Sayh al Uhaymir 169 derives from the Lalande impact crater on the lunar ...

  3. Meteorite impacts identified as driver of moon's tenuous ...

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    The moon has been constantly bombarded by meteorites - early in its history by large ones that gashed the gaping craters visible on the lunar surface and more recently by smaller ones including ...

  4. Big Bertha (lunar sample) - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 14 astronauts Edgar Mitchell and Alan Shepard examine Big Bertha during a news conference at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. Lunar Sample 14321, better known as "Big Bertha", is a lunar sample containing an embedded Earth-origin meteorite collected on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission. It was found in the Fra Mauro region ...

  5. Big Muley - Wikipedia

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    Big Muley is a 11.7 kg (26 lb) [3] breccia, consisting mainly of shocked anorthosite attached to a fragment of troctolitic "melt rock". The rock's cosmic ray exposure age was discovered to be about 1.8 million years, linking it to ejecta, or debris, from the impact that formed South Ray crater, to the south of the Apollo 16 landing site.

  6. Mare Orientale - Wikipedia

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    During the 1960s, rectified images of Mare Orientale by Gerard Kuiper at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory gave rise to the notion of it being an impact crater. [3] [4] The structure, with the flat plain of the mare in the center, is about 900 kilometres (560 mi) across and was formed by the impact of an asteroid-sized object, [5] [6] possibly 64 km (40 mi) in diameter and travelling at 15 km ...

  7. How Much Is a Meteorite Worth? - AOL

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    Fragments of the Moon or Mars are sometimes blasted into space by impacts and work their way to Earth. These are among the most highly sought-after and expensive meteorites. ... A 406-gram lunar ...

  8. Museum offers $25,000 reward for rock that fell from space - AOL

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    The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum wants to add to its collection, which includes moon and Mars rocks, Pitt said, so the first meteorite hunters to deliver a 1-kilogram (2.2-pound) specimen will ...

  9. Troctolite 76535 - Wikipedia

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    NASA image of Troctolite 76535.. Troctolite 76535 is a lunar sample discovered and collected on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 in the Taurus–Littrow valley.It has a mass of about 156 grams (5.5 oz) and is about 5 centimeters (2.0 in) across at its widest point.

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