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NWA 032 is a lunar meteorite found in Northwest Africa in 1999 and classified as an unbrecciated mare basalt. Its mineralogy, chemistry, and preserved igneous texture record crystallization from basaltic magma produced by volcanism on the Moon. Researchers have noted geochemical similarities between...
Dhofar 025 is a lunar meteorite found in Oman in 2000 and classified as a basaltic regolith breccia. It consists of fragmented lunar materials consolidated near the Moon's surface and includes components associated with both mare basalt and highland crust. The specimen is one of the meteorites recov...
Meteorite collected from Elephant Moraine, Antarctica, in 1996, one of many specimens trapped and concentrated in the blue-ice fields of that region.
