...albeit just very briefly!
Within an hour of putting this wonderful endcut of the Lunar meteorite NWA 11787 online I had two offers for it! It's a really nice chunk that shows the classic features of its class. Here are some details about it:
This lunar feldspathic breccia was found in Mauritania sometime in 2017. The total mass of around 23kg consists of hundreds of fragments: the find may be paired with the similar NWA 11788 which was obtained in Mali around the same time.
Cutting reveals a dark matrix with metal flecks, vesicles and fragments of various minerals: anorthosite, olivine, exsolved pigeonite, pigeonite, augite, chromite, Ti-Cr-Fe spinel, kamacite, taenite and troilite in a finer-grained matrix containing numerous small vesicles.
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