Petrography and Geochemistry of NWA 14005, Lunar Feldspathic Breccia.

04 October 2024, Version 1
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Abstract

In June 2021, I came across a rock sample found on the Algerian-Libyan border. The fragment was a gray rock, which had a small part of eroded fusion crust. Everything seemed to indicate that it was a lunar rock, so the process of analysis and the official classification began. The petrographic and geochemical data obtained both in our laboratory and in the Cascadia Meteorites Laboratory, Portland State University (USA) concluded with the official classification of the meteorite NWA 14005, a feldspathic breccia originating from the lunar highlands.

Keywords

meteorites
lunar breccia
Moon
NWA 14005

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