Meteorite: 84.58 gram extremely fresh NWA 11898 lunar individual.

Description

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Up for sale here is a  84.58 gram extremely fresh NWA 11898 lunar individual.
Here is what the metbull says about it:
Northwest Africa 11898
Basic information
Name:
Northwest Africa 11898
This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name.
Abbreviation:
NWA 11898
Observed fall:
No
Year found:
2018
Country:
Mali
Mass:
768 g
Classification
history:
Meteoritical Bulletin:
MB 107
(2018)
Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Recommended:
Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
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Comments:
Approved 31 Aug 2018
Writeup
Writeup from
MB 107:
Northwest Africa 11898
(NWA 11898)
Mali
Purchased: 2018
Classification: Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)
History
: Purchased in March 2018 by
Dustin
Dickens
from a meteorite dealer in Mali.
Physical characteristics
: Several identical appearing dark stones covered partially with a milky-green fusion crust. Broken surface reveals a fragmental breccia with numerous white feldspathic clasts set in a dark colored ground mass.
Petrography
: (C. Agee,
UNM
) This meteorite is a breccia of primarily feldspathic clasts, with lesser amounts of olivine and pyroxene fragments. The shock melt composition has a very high alumina content, vesicles occur throughout.
Geochemistry
: (C. Agee,
UNM
) olivine Fa
25.0±6.4
, Fe/Mn=90±5, n=8; pigeonite Fs
31.0±3.6
Wo
8.1±3.6
, Fe/Mn=58±4, n=6; high-Ca pyroxene Fs
22.3±3.7
Wo
35.0±4.7
, Fe/Mn=52±5, n=4; plagioclase An
96.3±0.7
Ab
3.5±0.7
Or
0.2±0.0
, n=6; Shock melt (20 μm defocused electron beam, proxy for bulk meteorite composition): SiO
2
=43.1±0.6, TiO
2
=0.12±0.03, Al
2
O
3
=31.3±1.2, Cr
2
O
3
=0.03±0.01, MgO=2.0±0.5, FeO=2.5±0.5, MnO=0.03±0.01, CaO=18.0±0.4, Na
2
O=0.36±0.01, K
2
O=0.04±0.00 (all wt%), n=4.
Classification
: Lunar feldspathic breccia
Specimens
: 21.6 g including a probe mount on deposit at
UNM
,
Dustin
Dickens
holds the main mass.
Data from:
MB107
Table 0
Line 0:
Place of purchase:
Mali
Date:
P 2018
Mass (g):
767.8
Pieces:
Several
Class:
Lunar (feldsp. breccia)
Shock stage:
high
Weathering grade:
low
Fayalite (mol%):
25.0±6.4
Ferrosilite (mol%):
31.0±3.6; 22.3±3.7
Wollastonite (mol%):
8.1±3.6; 35.0±4.7
Classifier:
C. Agee, UNM
Type spec mass (g):
21.6
Type spec location:
UNM
Main mass:
Dustin Dickens
Comments:
Field name DD-25; submitted by C. Agee, UNM