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Lunar Meteorites
URL: http://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/resources/moon_meteorites.html

Description:
Questions and answers about "lunar meteorites, or lunaites, [which] are meteorites from the Moon. In other words, they are rocks found on Earth that were ejected from the Moon by the impact of an asteroidal meteoroid or possibly a comet." Includes images, references to journal articles, a list of lunar meteorites, a gallery of "meteorwrongs" (rocks mistakenly identified as meteorites), and related material. From a lunar geochemist at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Author:
Korotev, Randy

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Geology
Meteorites
Moon

LII Database Information:
Record 3642 created by Jennifer English on 07/30/2004
Last modification on 08/03/2004
Published: 07/30/2004  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3642