NomCom rules have absolutely no bearing on pairings like this. After
all, such publications do nothing to change the names of the
specimens. What this allows you to do is talk about the NWA 773
pairing group to mean the whole collection, preferably after citing
the source for doing so.
Good evening, all.
Can someone please help me out with an explanation?
In looking at the Met Bul classifications of the pairings we have:
NWA 773, Lunar cumulate olivine norite with regolith breccia
NWA 2700 Classification pending
NWA 2727 Lunar mare basalt/gabbro breccia
NWA 2977 Lunar gabbro
Dave and List,
I believe you are seeing the individual descriptions of a variety of
clasts comprising a single large fragmental breccia meteorite. The fact
that this was such a fragmental breccia was not made clear until many of
the smaller individual lithologies were found and analyzed and
This answer comes from Randy Korotev, emailed to me in response to
Dave's question:
If these stones really are all from one meteorite, which is my
working hypothesis, it is the most lithologically (rock-type)
complex lunar meteorite there is. It's a coarse-grained
breccia. On my web site,
At 05:02 PM 7/31/2006, David Weir wrote:
My point about NomCom concerned the issue of whether these new
Bulletin entries (e.g., NWA 2727) would be permitted to include a
statement about its likely pairing to NWA 773. I didn't think that
NomCom rules would permit this, even though it would be
Hi David, Dave, and All,
Yes, this pairing grouplet represents a most heterogenous lunar breccia -
pretty unique. If you'd like to see photos of samples of the respective
members/numbers, please have a look at the Non-Antarctic Lunar Listing on
my brand-new website:
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Good evening, all.
Can someone please help me out with an explanation?
In looking at the Met Bul classifications of the pairings we have:
NWA
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