Lunar Meteorite: Tata 001
from The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 109
Tata 001South, Morocco Classification: Lunar meteorite Physical characteristics: A small greyish fragment. Cut surface reveals a dark interior. Petrography: (J. Gattacceca, CEREGE) Brecciated igneous rock with fractured mineral clasts to 300 μm set in a glassy mesostasis of feldspathic composition. Clasts are Ca-pyroxene (some with exsolutions) and plagioclase. The mesostasis has abundant ~20 μm vesicles. FeNi metal is present as ~10 μm grains. Geochemistry: Ca-pyroxene Fs37.9±14.0Wo15.4±8.6, FeO/MnO 59.3±11.8 (n=6). Plagioclase An96.7Ab3.1Or0.2 (n=2). Classification: Achondrite (lunar, feldspathic breccia) Specimens: Type specimen at CEREGE. Main mass with J. Bassemon. |
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