AWESOME 2016, NWA 10822 LUNAR MOON METEORITE POLISHED SLICE 3. 764 Gr. CRUSTED
Item History & Price
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This is one gorgeous piece of the Lunar surface. Offered here a newly classified and spectacular 3.764 gram slice of NWA 10822 Lunar meteorite. The NWA 10822 was found, cut and professionally polished to a near mirror finish before being classified in 2016. The pictured lunar slice measures approximately 33 mm x 30 mm x 2 mm and is ringed with the meteorite's natural crust. Attention must be paid to the highly polished lunar matrix that exhibits light and dark mm-size...d clasts and large mineral fragments densely scattered within its interior.
This was single stone of 56 grams classified by Carl Agee at the University of New Mexico Meteorlogical Institute . The cut surface reveals a feldspathic breccia with NUMEROUS white FELDSPAR clasts set in a dark gray matrix. Dr. Agee also noted there are scattered ORANGE-BROWN clasts up to 4 mm in diameter that consist primarily of PYROXENE. It is a mixture of fine-grained domains, large fragmental plagioclase crystals and melt veins. Some of these veins contain ~100 um-sized VESICLES (gas bubbles). There are also orange-brown domains consisting of PIGEONITE grains with AUGITE exsolution lamellae and interstitial plagioclase or melt veins. Your purchase of this slice of the Lunar surface includes a display case and an analysis sheet for the NWA 10822 Lunar Meteorite.
Please look at the enlarged photos for close-up views of this Lunar meteorite. Buy It Now requires immediate payment; Best Offer, if accepted, requires payment within 7 days. We will combine shipping of multiple purchases whenever possible.
Foreign and Domestic Customers: We will provide USPS tracking or delivery confirmation numbers to our buyers. We will not ship to Italy.
This was single stone of 56 grams classified by Carl Agee at the University of New Mexico Meteorlogical Institute . The cut surface reveals a feldspathic breccia with NUMEROUS white FELDSPAR clasts set in a dark gray matrix. Dr. Agee also noted there are scattered ORANGE-BROWN clasts up to 4 mm in diameter that consist primarily of PYROXENE. It is a mixture of fine-grained domains, large fragmental plagioclase crystals and melt veins. Some of these veins contain ~100 um-sized VESICLES (gas bubbles). There are also orange-brown domains consisting of PIGEONITE grains with AUGITE exsolution lamellae and interstitial plagioclase or melt veins. Your purchase of this slice of the Lunar surface includes a display case and an analysis sheet for the NWA 10822 Lunar Meteorite.
Please look at the enlarged photos for close-up views of this Lunar meteorite. Buy It Now requires immediate payment; Best Offer, if accepted, requires payment within 7 days. We will combine shipping of multiple purchases whenever possible.
Foreign and Domestic Customers: We will provide USPS tracking or delivery confirmation numbers to our buyers. We will not ship to Italy.
