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    lunar meteorite is a meteorite that is known to have originated on the Moon. A meteorite hitting the Moon is normally classified as a transient lunar...
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    Moon rock (redirect from Lunar sample)
    landed on Earth as meteorites. Moon rocks on Earth come from four sources: those collected by six United States Apollo program crewed lunar landings from 1969...
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    The Bench Crater meteorite is a meteorite discovered on the Moon by Apollo 12 astronauts in 1969. It is part of the friable basalt lunar sample 12037. Found...
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  • a list of lunar meteorites. That is, meteorites that have been identified as having originated from Earth's Moon. Where multiple meteorites are listed...
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  • Thumbnail for Big Bertha (lunar sample)
    Lunar Sample 14321, better known as "Big Bertha", is a lunar sample containing an embedded Earth-origin meteorite collected on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission...
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    enstatite chondrite (EH) by the Meteoritical Society. Glossary of meteoritics Bench Crater meteorite Big Bertha (lunar sample) Hadley–Apennine (Moon) Heat...
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  • Thumbnail for Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment
    The Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment (LEAM) was a lunar science experiment that flew to the Moon on board Apollo 17 in 1972. It collected information...
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    Lunar and Planetary Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, and other science institutes proclaim it to be the "best-preserved meteorite crater...
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    following groups: Primitive achondrites Asteroidal achondrites Lunar meteorites Martian meteorites Primitive achondrites, also called PAC group, are so-called...
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  • Meteorite fall statistics are frequently used by planetary scientists to approximate the true flux of meteorites on Earth. Meteorite falls are those meteorites...
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    fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET...
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    and lunar surface during impact events, and that some of these have landed on the Earth as meteorites. However, the first Antarctic lunar meteorite was...
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    group Lunar meteorite group Martian meteorite group (sometimes called "SNC meteorites") Shergottites Nakhlites Chassignites Other Martian meteorites, e.g...
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    A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon. When the original object enters the atmosphere...
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    lunar meteorites, this hypothesis, while still controversial, has become more popular. The lunar meteorites are thought to randomly sample the lunar surface...
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  • Yamato (section Meteorites)
    Yamato 691, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite Yamato 791197, lunar meteorite found on Earth Yamato 000593, Martian meteorite found on Earth Yamato (ship), several...
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  • Look up meteoritics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meteoritics is the science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids. It is closely connected...
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    Sayh al Uhaymir 169 (category Lunar meteorites)
    Sayh al Uhaymir 169 (SaU 169) is a 206 gram lunar meteorite found in the Sayh al Uhaymir region of the Sultanate of Oman in January 2002. This stone is...
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  • handful of lunar meteorites have been recognized on Earth, though their source craters on the Moon are unknown. A substantial portion of the lunar surface...
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  • meteorite that originated from the Moon (synonym of Lunar meteorite). Compare Category:Meteorites found on bodies other than Earth. Lunar meteorite –...
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    and Radiant". Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 26: 1133. Bibcode:1995LPI....26.1133P. Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Sylacauga...
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    The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February...
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    Moonbase (redirect from Lunar base)
    A moonbase, lunar base, or lunar colony is a facility on or below the surface of the Moon, enabling human activity on the Moon. As such, it is different...
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    A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any...
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    Allan Hills A81005 (category Lunar meteorites)
    the first lunar meteorite found on Earth. It was found in 1982 in the Allan Hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains, during a meteorite gathering...
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    lunar meteorites are growing quickly in the last few years – as of April 2008 there are 54 meteorites that have been officially classified as lunar....
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    formation of lunar soil are:[citation needed] Comminution: mechanical breaking of rocks and minerals into smaller particles by meteorite and micrometeorite...
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    Arizona. Subsequently, the mass was investigated at the Southwest Meteorite Center, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona...
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    Nakhla is a Martian meteorite which fell in Egypt in 1911. It was the first meteorite reported from Egypt, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes...
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  • Parent body (category Meteorite mineralogy and petrology)
    for Lunar and Martian meteorites. Samples from suspected Lunar meteorites can be compared with samples from the Apollo program. Martian meteorites can...
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