Dhofar 1180 Lunar Meteorite - Oman
Dhofar 1180 Lunar Meteorite - Oman
Zufar, Oman
This is a very large 0.9 gram sample of this small 115.2 gram lunar meteorite. Here is your chance to own a large piece of the moon.
A 115.2 g stone in the shape of a thin-bladed talon, was found by Michael Farmer in the Dhofar region of Oman. The sample is a feldspathic fragmental breccia that contains a variety of lithologies set in matrix of similar materials with a preferred orientation of fragments and clasts. Mostly ferroan anorthosites with clasts of gabbroic anorthosites, anorthositic gabbros and norites, troctolites, olivine gabbros, microporphyritic and fine-grained impact-melt breccias, and rare, ophitic/subophitic basalts and symplectites of unknown provenance.
1.1 x 0.65 x .05 inches