curation details including any images taken during sample processing and sketches that might help decipher such actions,.collection and macroscopic details, such as maps and images,.This compendium includes the following information where possible and available: MacAlpine Hills 8815 lunar highland meteorites: General description and consortium overview. Geophysical Research Letters 10, 775-778. (1983) The discovery and initial characterization of Allan Hills 81005: The first lunar meteorite. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 89(1), pp.509-562. Joy, K.H., Gross, J., Korotev, R.L., Zeigler, R.A., McCubbin, F.M., Snape, J.F., Curran, N.M., Pernet-Fisher, J.F. 35 Seasons of US Antarctic Meteorites (1976–2010) A Pictorial Guide to the Collection, 101-130. Lunar geochemistry as told by lunar meteorites. 99, Mineralogical Society of America, Washington DC. 60, Mineralogical Society of America, Washington DC. Heiken G., Vaniman DT, and French BM New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. Lunar sourcebook: A user's guide to the Moon, 1st ed., edited by Basaltic Volcanism on the Terrestrial Planets. Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute.īasaltic Volcanism Study Project (BVSP) 1981. Planetary science: A lunar perspective (Vol. Loration, samples, and recent concepts of the Moon. All of these reasons have influenced the curation office at JSC to initiate and then periodically update a Lunar Meteorite Compendium. Randy Korotev has written a thorough review article regarding lunar meteorites (Korotev, 2005), Korotev and Zeigler (2014) have reviewed Antarctic lunar meteorites, and Joy et al. There have been a few journal issues dedicated to specific lunar meteorites, such as ALH A81005 (Marvin, 1983) and MAC 88105 (Lindstrom et al., 1991). Wieczorek, Shearer and Neal, 2006 Neal et al., 2023). Taylor, 1986), and the Lunar Source Book (Heiken, Vaniman and Phillips, 1991) - all pre-date the recent explosion of lunar meteorites.Ī few exceptions are the New Views of the Moon and New Views of the Moon 2 books (released in 20, respectively) – lunar meteorites are nicely integrated into many of the chapters of these books (Jolliff, Volcanism Study Project (BVSP, 1981), Origin of the Moon (Hartman, Phillips and G.J. And fourth, the many of the books and resources dedicated to lunar materials – Lunar Science: An Apollo perspective (S.R. The reader as a springboard into the extensive peer reviewed literature. Second, as our community becomes increasingly geared toward sample return missions, the need arises for succinct presentation of information about sample collections. Charles Meyer's Mars Meteorite Compendium provided precedence for initiating a project This is justified for several additional reasons. Because of the mass, diversity and number of lunar meteorites in world collections, it was suggested by CAPTEM and other members of the community that a Respectively (381.7 kg Vaniman et al., 1991). The total mass of recognized lunar meteorites is >417 kg, as compared to the 21.5, 34.4, 42.3, 77.3, 95.7, and 110.5 kg of rock brought back from the Moon by Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17, Sixteen of these are from the US Antarctic meteorite collection, 6 are from the Japanese Antarctic meteorite collection, and the others are from hot desert localities in Africa, Australia, and the Middle East. The numbers of lunar meteorites have grown substantially the last few decades - as of January 2024 there are nearly 150 unique lunar meteorite groups that have been officially classified as lunar (see full listing on compendium home page).

Lunar meteorite identification pictures