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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
CAMS (the Cameras for All-Sky Meteor Surveillance project) is a NASA-sponsored international project that tracks and triangulates meteors during night-time video surveillance in order to map and monitor meteor showers. Data processing is housed at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute [1] in California, USA.
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 ...
Lunar meteorite; Northwest Africa 11789-List of lunar meteorites; A. Allan Hills A81005; S. Sayh al Uhaymir 169; Y. Yamato 791197 This page was last edited on 5 ...
Moon rocks on Earth come from four sources: those collected by six United States Apollo program crewed lunar landings from 1969 to 1972; those collected by three Soviet uncrewed Luna probes in the 1970s; those collected by the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program's uncrewed probes; and rocks that were ejected naturally from the lunar surface before falling to Earth as lunar meteorites.