Lunar Meteorite: Béchar 007
192,00 €
Type……………Lunar meteorite, feldspathic breccia.
Found…..March 24, 2022.
Origin…Algeria.
Mass……………7.1 g
Measurements: 2.8 cm x 1.8 cm x 1.7 cm
Many small stones were found together in Algeria on March 24, 2022, the total mass being 1084 g, they lack fusion crust and have eroded light brown exteriors. The interiors are gray with small fuzzy white clasts and tiny metal grains sparse and visible. These pieces present some heterogeneity in their composition, but all contain clasts of calcium plagioclase mainly anorthite, olivine, pyroxene with low Ca content and augite within a very fine-grained, sparsely microvesicular matrix that contains Tichromite, troilite, kamacite and barite.
Lunar meteorites are rocks found in the Land having been expelled from the Moon by the impact on its surface of a asteroidal meteor or possibly a kiteThey remain in space for a long time, but sometimes they cross Earth's orbit and end up crashing, even after millions of years.
These meteorites are known to be from the Moon because lunar rocks were collected and brought to Earth on the Apollo missions.
Lunar meteorites are the only rocks from the Moon that can be sold or bought from an individual freely. legal.
All rocks obtained from the Apollo missions are considered property of the Humanity and for the benefit of the Science, so its private possession is illegal, in addition to its sale and purchase. The small samples of lunar rocks obtained by the Russian probe are also not available to the general public. Moon 16.








