NWA 11616 MOON ROCK — UNUSUAL POLYMICT BRECCIA WITH RARE LUNAR MARE COMPONENT AND FUSION CRUST
23.02.2021 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 491262
Los 52 | NWA 11616 MOON ROCK — UNUSUAL POLYMICT BRECCIA WITH RARE LUNAR MARE COMPONENT AND FUSION CRUST
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$ 6 000 – 8 000
North West Africa (NWA) 11616 was discovered in 2017. As described by the foremost classifier of lunar meteorites, Dr. Anthony Irving, along with his colleague, lunar geochemist Dr. Randy Korotev, this is a polymict fragmental breccia with separate olivine gabbro and rare olivine-free basaltic (lunar mare) clasts in a fragmental matrix.
Lunar meteorites that contain lunar mare material are exceedingly rare. This is because the dark basaltic plains from which they originate encompass only about 17% of the lunar surface.
This particular sample of the Moon contains both the lighter and darker materials we see when we look at the Moon. The lighter olivine gabbro clasts contain, in part, olivine, zoned clinopyroxene and maskelynite. The darker area is rare lunar basalt (lunar mare). A mixture of gabbro and regolith are also contained in this select sample. Cut on three sides, the edge of this wedge is covered in fusion crust, and the gabbro and mare sections exhibit crusts of different character, not previously documented on a lunar meteorite. Modern cutting. Lot 51 was cut from the same meteorite.
Christie's would like to thank Dr. Alan E. Rubin at the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles for his assistance in preparing this catalogue.
The analysis of this meteorite was led by Dr. Anthony Irving, whose findings underwent peer review by the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. The analysis and classification was published in the 107th edition of the Meteoritical Bulletin — the official registry of meteorites.
25 x 34 x 20mm (1 x 1.33 x 0.75 in.) and 29.38g
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