Best Anorthositic Breccia
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ALH 81005 is a meteorite found in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica in 1982 and subsequently identified as material ejected from the Moon. It is an anorthositic regolith breccia composed of fragments derived largely from the lunar highlands, mixed and consolidated by impacts. Its recognition as t...
Northwest Africa 5000, commonly abbreviated NWA 5000, is a lunar meteorite found in Morocco in 2007. The original stone weighed about 11.5 kilograms and consists of feldspathic breccia, a rock assembled from fragments produced by impacts on the Moon's anorthosite-rich crust. Its lunar origin is esta...
Dhofar 008 is a lunar meteorite found in the Dhofar region of Oman in 1999. Laboratory study established that it originated from the Moon, making it part of the limited body of lunar material delivered naturally to Earth by impacts. Its brecciated composition contains fragments produced and mixed by...
Yamato 791197, commonly abbreviated Y-791197, is a lunar meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Yamato Mountains by a Japanese Antarctic research expedition. It is an anorthositic regolith breccia composed of fragments produced and mixed by impacts on the Moon, including material associated with the lu...
Carbonaceous chondrite found in the Sahara Desert in 1998, preserving primitive pre-solar grains and organic compounds from the early solar system.
Dar al Gani 400 is a lunar meteorite found in Libya in 1998, not a Martian shergottite. It is classified as an anorthositic regolith breccia, a rock assembled from fragments of lunar crust and surface material that were broken and recombined by impacts. Its mineralogy and impact history make it usef...
MAC 88104 is a lunar meteorite recovered in 1988 from the MacAlpine Hills region of Antarctica during systematic Antarctic meteorite collection work. It is classified as an anorthositic regolith breccia, consisting of fragmented lunar highland rocks and surface material consolidated by repeated impa...
Ureilite achondrite found in the Kalahari Desert region of southern Africa, belonging to the rare carbon-rich ultramafic achondrite group with a distinctive mineralogy.
Yamato 82192 is a meteorite collected during the 1982–83 Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in the Yamato Mountains, part of Japan's systematic large-scale Antarctic recovery program.
