Lunar meteorites from Oman

Trace Element Chemistry of Lunar Highland Meteorites from Oman

Introduction: During the last few years, numerous lunar meteorites have been discovered in the Dhofar region of Oman. All of them are lunar highland brec-cias, except for Dhofar 287A, which is a mare basalt. In this paper, we present the first trace-element chemistry of these new lunar highland meteorites: Dhofar 280, 301-310. Mineralogy and petrology of these meteorites have been reported in [...

Dhofar 304, 305, 306 and 307: New Lunar Highland Meteorites from Oman

Introduction: Several lunar highland meteorites were found in the Dhofar region of Oman. Here we report the first data on the petrography and mineralogy of four new lunar stones, Dhofar 304, 305, 306 and 307. Dh-304 was found close to Dh-025 and 301, whereas Dh-305, 306 and 307 were recovered nearby Dh-081, 280, 302 and 303. The new meteorites are moderately weathered, impact-melt breccias. No ...

Terrestrial Ages of Some Meteorites from Oman

What Lunar Meteorites Tell Us about the Lunar Highlands Crust

The first meteorite to be found 1 that was eventually (1984) recognized to have originated from the Moon is Yamato 791197 [1]. The find date, November 20, 1979, was four days after the end of the first Conference on the Lunar Highland Crust [2]. Since then, >75 other lunar meteorites have been found, and these meteorites provide information about the lunar highlands that was not known from stud...

Formation times of Meteorites and Lunar Samples

Atopic abundances and the reso lu t ion of small t ime differ­ ences in the formation of p lane ta ry objects, Earth Planet. Sci Lett., 5, 3 6 1 3 7 6 , 1 9 6 9 . fmn R ®-> Heavy rare gases in silicates f rom t h e Esterville lesosiderite,X Geophys. Res., 71, 2 8 1 5 2 8 2 9 , 1966 . toin R. 0 . , Trapped neon in meteor i t e s , Earth Planet. Sci ' letl 1 1 3 1 8 , 1967 . Pepin R 0 . , and P. ...