This 1.81 gram lunar meteorite endcut was classified by Dr. Anthony Irving at the University of Washington, formally with NASA, and it has been approved by the Meteoritical Society. I was part of a group that worked with the finders to be able to bring this material tocollectors and scientists.

Location:Sahara Desert (Northwest Africa), exact location unknown.

Found:2017

Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathicregolith breccia)

History:Material excavated from a site near Tindouf, Algeria was purchased by a consortium of collectors (Rob Wesel, Eric Twelker, and Jason Phillips)in April 2017 from Moroccan dealers.

Petrograhpy:(A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Breccia composed of mineral clasts ofanorthite, olivine, exsolved pigeonite, pigeonite, augite, chromite,Ti-Cr-Fe spinel, kamacite, taenite and troilite in a finer grainedmatrix containing small vesicles and minor barite. Rare basalt clastsand glass fragments are also present.

Geochemistry:Olivine (Fa8.7-59.7,FeO/MnO = 89-111, N = 4), pigeonite (Fs28.8Wo11.2,FeO/MnO = 56), clinopyroxene host (Fs15.3Wo40.9,FeO/MnO = 44), orthopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs34.0Wo2.7,FeO/MnO = 56), augite (Fs16.8Wo41.7,FeO/MnO = 62), plagioclase (An95.9-96.5Or0.2,N = 2).

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