Lot 803
Complete Lunar Meteorite Slice. The only legal way to own a piece of the moon is to purchase a piece of a Lunar meteorite. All Lunar meteorites are rare and small. Lunar meteorites are friable and break up very easily when they enter the earth's atmosphere resulting in only small meteorites actually landing on the ground. NWA 10415 was a 164 gram meteorite found in the Sahara desert in 2015. NWA 10415 is a Lunar feldspathic breccia with high alumina. Even though the moon appears to be very bright when viewed from the earth, the moon actually reflects very little light compared to the planets and other moons in the solar system. This lovely dark gray to black meteorite is typical of the dark breccia covering most of the moon. Breccias are a mixture of different soils that became mixed together from many meteorite impacts that occurred on the moon billions of years ago. This fairly large 38mm X 29mm 3.06 gram complete slice displays numerous light colored feldspathic clasts and numerous dark gray clasts with numerous feldspar grains and scattered olivine pyroxenes throughout the matrix. Housed in a 8 X 6 inch Ryker mount. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,750
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