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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Meteor Crater (redirect from Barringer Meteorite Crater)
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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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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Achondrite (redirect from Achondrite meteorite)
following groups: Primitive achondrites Asteroidal achondrites Lunar meteorites Martian meteorites Primitive achondrites, also called PAC group, are so-called...
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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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group Lunar meteorite group Martian meteorite group (sometimes called "SNC meteorites") Shergottites Nakhlites Chassignites Other Martian meteorites, e.g...
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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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Allan Hills 84001 (redirect from Allen hills meteorite)
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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The Cape York meteorite, also known as the Innaanganeq meteorite, is one of the largest known iron meteorites, classified as a medium octahedrite in chemical...
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Late Heavy Bombardment (redirect from Lunar cataclysm)
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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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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Moon landing conspiracy theories (redirect from Lunar hoax)
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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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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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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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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The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February...
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Geology of the Moon (redirect from Lunar surface)
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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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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and Radiant". Abstracts of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 26: 1133. Bibcode:1995LPI....26.1133P. Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Sylacauga...
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Allan Hills A81005 (category Lunar meteorites)
number) was the first meteorite to be recognised as a lunar meteorite. The meteorite Yamato 791197 was discovered in 1979 but its lunar origin was not recognised...
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meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite...
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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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formation of lunar regolith are:[citation needed] Comminution: mechanical breaking of rocks and minerals into smaller particles by meteorite and micrometeorite...
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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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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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Canada, and Rochechouart in France. Reidite has also been found in one lunar meteorite. Reidite is named after Alan F. Reid, the scientist who first synthesized...
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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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significant events, listed below. January 17 – Allan Hills A81005, the first lunar meteorite found on Earth, is discovered in the Allan Hills at the end of the...
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ANSMET (redirect from ANtarctic Search for METeorites)
in addition to a Lunar meteorite ALH 81005, and the Martian meteorites EETA 79001, ALH77005 and ALH84001. The search for the meteorites is done visually...
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