Lot 76
Dar al Gani 262
The Robert Elliott Meteorite Collection
Auction: 18 August 2009 at 15:00 BST
Description
Polished fragment
Dimensions
0.672g
Footnote
Dar al Gani 262 (Sahara) Lunar (stone) - found 23rd March 1997
This meteorite has been classified as a polymict anorthositic breccia - a meteorite ejected through asteroid impact from the Highland region of our Moon.
From the 5th edition Catalogue of Meteorites: "A single 513 g stone was found in the Sahara. Classification and description (A. Bischoff and D. Weber, Munster): contains clasts up to 1 cm, mainly anorthositic lithologies and crystalline impact melt breccias, and glass fragments and spherules (partly devitrified) embedded in a fine-grained, well-consolidated matrix; bulk plagioclase, An >95^; olivine, Fa 20-71^; low-Ca pyroxene, Fs 26-63^; has shock veins; contains metal particles (5-26 wt% Ni), ilmenite, troilite, Ti-Cr-spinel; meteorite is moderately weathered."
Lunar meteorites are highly prized amongst collectors and scientists alike.