Lunar Meteorite NWA 14686

RARE, Lunar Meteorite! This NWA 14686 is a NEW, visually stunning, Lunar meteorite from the Sahara Desert. It has been classified as a Lunar fragmental breccia.

The Following is an abbreviated excerpt from the Meteorite Bulletin write up for NWA 14686

Northwest Africa 14686 (NWA 14686)

Classification: Lunar meteorite (frag. breccia)

Physical characteristics: Eight identical looking stones of varying sizes without fusion crust. Cut surface of one of the stones reveals a fragmental breccia set in a dark-gray ground mass.

Petrography: (A. Ross, UNM; D. Dickens, NMMS; C. Agee, UNM) This meteorite is a clast-rich polymict breccia with lithic fragments embedded in a fine-grained moderately vesiculated groundmass showing dispersed melt features. Quenched melt pockets were observed enclosing some olivine and pyroxenes grains. Fragmental clasts sizes range from <0.1-8 mm and appear to be primarily basaltic. Kamacite, Cr-spinels, silica, troilite, and ilmenite are present. A range of Cr and Ti oxides were detected. This meteorite is shocked with intermittent impact melt textures present.

Classification: Lunar Fragmental Breccia

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