Lunar Meteorite North West Africa 4881

Welcome to Arizona Skies Meteorites™. Below you will find a fine selection of highly collecible Lunar meteorite display boxes. Each box was crafted to exacting specifications and contains an authentic Lunar meteorite specimen weighing between 6 milligrams and 10+ milligrams! These samples are from the Lunar meteorite North West Africa 4881. Each display box measures approximately 2 inches x 1.25 inches by 0.5 inches and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity!They make fantastic gifts and are of course highly collectible. Collect just one or the whole set! Below are examples of the various styles available. We have limited quantities, so first come first serve.

Northwest Africa 4881 Description (excerpt from Meteoritical Bulletin):

Lunar Granulitic Breccia

Found in 2005 and purchased from a dealer in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Physical characteristics: A single, broken, irregular conical stone (606 g) partially covered by translucent, pale greenish fusion crust and with a pale grey-brown interior. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Fine grained recrystallized breccia composed of larger plagioclase grains (converted partially to maskelynite) poikilitically enclosing very small grains (mostly 30-80 microns) of low-Ca pyroxenes, olivine, Ti-chromite, ilmenite, troilite and metal. Mineral compositions and geochemistry: Olivine (Fa40.4-58.8, FeO/MnO = 91-100), plagioclase (An96.1-98Or<0.1), pigeonite (Fs32.0-64.5Wo9.5-13.1, FeO/MnO = 51.1-62). Classification: Achondrite (lunar, granulitic breccia). This stone is paired with Northwest Africa 3163 (Irving et al., 2006) and Northwest Africa 4483; in combination these specimens evidently represent naturally broken pieces from a crusted lunar meteorite weighing at least 2448 g. Specimens: A total of 20 g of sample and one polished mount are on deposit at UWS. Submitted by: A. Irving, UWS.