By the way, make sure you get the upcoming issue of Meteorite Magazine, there might just be a note in there about this new Lunar..............
Mike
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:34 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] What a lunar thrill - again ! :-)
Hello List,
Those fortunate enough to own a piece or a slice of M. Farmer's Dhofar 1180 LUN-A will have noticed that it is one of the darkest lunars in our collections.
I was amazed to detect numerous "glassy-looking" clasts when I wandered over it with my Russian MBS-10 stereo microscope.
One of these may be epoxy resin (Mike ...?) because it is crystal- clear like the melt pockets you find in some of the NWA 482 lunars.
But several others are a pleasing tan color - translucent like smoky quartz crystals that were not exposed to radioactive radiation too long.
So, maybe, Dhofar 1180 may turn out to be a heavily shocked lunar meteorite and I was looking at higly maskelynitized plagioclase crystals or some other shocked minerals and the overall dark matrix may be due to shock darkening.
How I would love to know which cratering / impact event on "radiant Diana*," "the goddess of love and lunacy*" produced this and other lunar beauties!
* Paul Auster: Moon Palace
Best wishes,
Bernd
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