My Antarctic comment was related to the fusion crust and so better identification of lunar meteor. Possibly true for other material from other worlds (reading back maybe clumsily worded).
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My Antarctic comment was related to the fusion crust and so better identification of lunar meteor. Possibly true for other material from other worlds (reading back maybe clumsily worded).
Escape velocity is so low, we must have tons of moon rocks about - the above indicates however that the largest ever recorded is around 16.5kg, so not big at all and so no doubt it's tough to tell -...
Ok, some further info for S-J as he's no doubt still sceptical about :eagerness: - http://meteorites.wustl.edu/lunar/moon_meteorites.htm
the following part - 'Meteoroids strike the Moon every day....
Fragments escaping the moon over the last 10-100 million years is entirely plausible - doesn’t have to be big.
You can compare to the composition of the samples taken by the Apollo teams that...
So I 'think' - meteorite is defined as an out of space object that survives impact onto earth. Moon meteorite has it origins from our 'Moon'. So these are fragments of our moon. I'm pretty certain...
I'd agree - I wonder how many they will make?
I'm in a minority being not a speedmaster fan at all (ironically I always recommend to non-WIS to check them out as a starting point). Also I don't...