NWA 10756 Lunar Meteorites for Sale
Location: Sahara Desert (Northwest Africa), exact location unknown.
Found: 2015.
Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)
Description: History: Purchased by Eric Twelker in September 2015 from a Moroccan dealer at the Denver Show. Physical characteristics: A single stone (125 g) lacking fusion crust and consisting of beige, white and red-brown stained clasts in a dark-gray matrix. Petrography: (A. Irving and S. Kuehner, UWS) Breccia composed of shocked gabbroic clasts and related crystalline debris, plus sparse devitrified glass clasts in a finer matrix containing vesicular glass. Minerals are olivine, pigeonite, exsolved pigeonite, augite, anorthite, Ti-poor chromite, Ti-rich chromite and ilmenite. Minor secondary calcite veinlets and barite are present. Geochemistry: Olivine (Fa19.1-41.9, FeO/MnO = 69-78, N = 4), pigeonite (Fs41.0Wo5.2, FeO/MnO = 51), augite (Fs9.8Wo42.8, FeO/MnO = 36), low-Ca pyroxene host (Fs56.7Wo5.6, FeO/MnO = 56), clinopyroxene exsolution lamella (Fs30.2Wo39.1, FeO/MnO = 52), anorthite (An96.8Or0.2).
Link to Meteoritical Bulletin Database.
Other references:How do we know it's from the moon?
More about Lunar Meteorites.
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| # NWA10756-277 | # NWA10756-322 | # NWA10756-797 | # NWA10756-801 | About Scale: Each photo has a small one centimeter cube. That's a little less than a half inch on a side. The coin above is a US dime. |
| Weight: 0.277 gm | Weight: 0.322 gm | Weight: 0.797 gm | Weight: 0.801 gm | |
| Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | |
| Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold |
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| # NWA10756-1-105 | # NWA10756-1-557 | # NWA10756-1-961 | # NWA10756-1-985 | # NWA10756-2-104 |
| Weight: 1.105 gm | Weight: 1.557 gm | Weight: 1.961 gm | Weight: 1.985 gm | Weight: 2.104 gm |
| Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice |
| Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold |
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| # NWA10756-2-106 | # NWA10756-2-599 | # NWA10756-2-655 | # NWA10756-2-696 | # NWA10756-2-758 |
| Weight: 2.106 gm | Weight: 2.599 gm | Weight: 2.655 gm | Weight: 2.696 gm | Weight: 2.758 gm |
| Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice | Features: Part slice |
| Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold |
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| # NWA10756-5-722 | # NWA10756-6-743 | # NWA10756-8-582 |
| Weight: 5.722 gm | Weight: 6.743 gm | Weight: 8.582 gm |
| Features: Part slice | Features: End | Features: End |
| Price: sold | Price: sold | Price: sold |
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