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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 ...
An Up-to-Date List of Lunar Meteorites — Washington University in St. Louis. Lunar meteorites Archived 2011-04-13 at the Wayback Machine — Washington University in St. Louis. Taylor, G. J. (Oct., 2004) New Lunar Meteorite Provides its Lunar Address and Some Clues about Early Bombardment of the Moon. Planetary Science Research Discoveries.
The largest fragment weighs over 2 kg (4.4 lb), and the smallest weighs about 45 g (1.6 oz). The larger pieces show a black-brown partial fusion crust, caused by the heat generated as the meteorite descended through Earth's atmosphere. The large pieces also show thumb printing. Internally, the breccia is fragmented, with white clasts of ...
The NASA astronauts who became the first people to land on the moon's surface in the 1960s and 1970s also discovered a previously unknown lunar characteristic - it has an atmosphere, though quite ...
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
Some of the biggest names in music will help TODAY celebrate 30 years of its iconic Plaza by hitting the stage this summer! The 13-date lineup for the 2024 Citi Concert Series has been released.
A rare spectacle began Sunday night as an August supermoon blue moon rose into the sky.. The first of 2024's four consecutive supermoons, the blue moon - also known as the Sturgeon Moon - was ...
Troctolite 76535 is a coarse-grained plutonic rock that is believed to have had a slow cooling history. The rock originates from early in the Moon's history.Geologists have described it as a coarse-grained olivine-plagioclase cumulate with a granular polygonal texture. [2]