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Lunar meteorite (feldspathic breccia)
55 mm x 45 mm x 1 mm
14 grams
Lunar meteorites are the result of another meteorite hitting the Moon and releasing its rock into space, where they were floating for probably millions of years until their trajectory led them to Earth. It is known that these meteorites are from the Moon because they are unequivocally similar to lunar rocks picked up and brought to Earth in the Apollo missions. Scientists studied their composition and proved that these meteorites cannot come from any other part of the Solar System but from the Moon.
This lunar meteorite is a feldspathic breccia, meaning that it is composed of fragmented mineral and rock pieces, primarily of mineral feldspar, cemented together by a fine-grained matrix. It comes from a strewn field discovered in 2022 in the vast plains of the Sahara Desert, between Algeria and Morocco.
Being a slice, the pristine inner texture of the lunar rock can be seen.
