Lunar Meteorite: Shişr 160

Shişr 160 in the field. Photo credit: Mike Farmer
Same side, up close. Photo credit: Heritage Auctions
Facing slices of Shişr 160. Photo credit: Heritage Auctions
Another slice of Shişr 160. Photo credit: Heritage Auctions
A different slice of Shişr 160. Photo credit: Dolores Hill and Ted Bunch
Lab sample of Shişr 160. Photo credit: Randy Korotev

from The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 95

Shişr 160

Oman
Find: 15 January 2008
Mass: 100.86 g, 1 piece

Achondrite (lunar, feldspathic fragmental breccia)

Petrography: (Ted Bunch, NAU) Fa: 25.8–53.2; Fs: 43.3; Wo: 4

Type specimen: 20.1 NAU/Bunch Main Mass: DPitt.

Randy Says…

Compositionally,  Shişr 160 is a typical feldspathic lunar meteorite. None of the 4 Shişr lunar meteorites is paired with another.

More Information

Meteoritical Bulletin Database

Shişr 160

Map

Schematic Map of  Find Locations of  Lunar Meteorite from Oman

References

Korotev R. L. (2012) Lunar meteorites from Oman. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 47, 1365-1402.

Korotev R. L. (2017) Update (2012–2017) on lunar meteorites from Oman. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 52, 1251-1256.

All Korotev data on Omani lunar meteorites.

Korotev R. L., Zeigler R. A., Irving A. J., and Bunch T. E. (2009) Keeping up with the Lunar Meteorites – 2009. 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, abstract no. 1137.

Korotev R. L., Jolliff B. L., and Zeigler R. A. (2010) On the origin of the moon’s feldspathic highlands, pure anorthosite, and the feldspathic lunar meteorites. 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, abstract no. 1440.

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