Lunar Meteorite: Touat 008
| from The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 112 Touat 008Adrar, Algeria Lunar meteorite (troctolitic melt breccia) History: Found in Algeria in February 2023 and purchased from the finder by Mbark Arjdal in February and May 2023. Petrography: (A. Irving, UWS, and P. Carpenter, WUSL) Breccia dominated by mineral debris and some lithic clasts related to troctolitic lithologies. Mean grainsize is ~100 µm. Portions of the very fine grained matrix exhibit fluidal textures and contain sparse vesicles. Accessory phases include Cr-bearing pleonaste, troilite (commonly altered to secondary barite), low-Ti chromite and calcite (as patchy secondary alteration of plagioclase). Geochemistry: Anorthite (An95.9-96.8Or0.1-0.0, N = 4), olivine (Fa20.0-24.0, FeO/MnO = 74-89, N = 5), pigeonite (Fs19.4-19.9Wo5.0-6.9, FeO/MnO = 42-55, N = 4), subcalcic augite (Fs13.0Wo34.4, FeO/MnO = 40; Fs27.5Wo21.7, FeO/MnO = 51; Fs43.9Wo29.2, FeO/MnO = 63; N = 3). Classification: Lunar (troctolitic melt breccia). This material is similar in many respects to Rafsa 002. Specimens: 45.3 g including a polished endcut at UWB; remainder with Mr. M. Arjdal. |
| Randy Says… I have not studied Touat 008. The reported find location of Touat 008 is 29 km west of Touat 004 and 73 km southeast of Touat 005 so I assume Touat 008 is not paired with the other Touat lunar meteorites. |
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