Lunar And Martian Meteorites

Nov 20, 2020

Lunar meteorites can be divided into volcanic rocks and sedimentary rocks. Lunar basalts are one of the main rocks that make up the moon. The colors are black, white, dark purple, fuchsia, green, dark green (commonly known as black sapphire green), gray green, yellow, Brown-yellow, mixed colors, etc. Biotite is also present in the porphyritic structure and almond structure. Common sulfides in lunar meteorites include pyrite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, kalcopyrite, pyrite, and unclear minerals.

The transparent fusion crust on the surface of lunar meteorites, which are volcanic rocks, is formed after high-temperature melting of transparent materials in the lunar rocks. Other melting phenomena such as melting crust, melt flow lines, melt flow lines, grooves, erosion pits, and edges and corners formed by directional falling are very obvious.

The transparent fusion crust feature of lunar meteorites is a symbol for judging lunar meteorites. Because it has fallen to the earth for too long, lunar igneous meteorites that have been severely eroded by wind will lose their transparent fusion crust. Usually this phenomenon will not affect the final confirmation of lunar meteorites.

Commonly seen in lunar meteorites are granular and massive plagioclase twin crystal aggregates and microban molten breccia. The colors are colorless, white, dark gray, flesh red, pink, yellow, light yellow, and green. The glass is transparent to translucent. Plate-shaped or flat columnar single crystals are often white, and needle-shaped olivine can be seen in the plate-shaped single crystals. Lunar meteorites have the characteristics of breccia plagioclase, which is an important scientific basis for confirming lunar meteorites. The meteorites that fall from Mars are called "Martian meteorites". Mars meteorites are also a very rare species of meteorites. The more well-known ones are the "84001" Martian meteorites containing organic matter, and the olivine meteorites called "quasicrystals". Olivine phenocryst "Idinite Martian meteorite" hybridized with oxygen-containing iron silicon water molecules.


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