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| Hadley Rille | |||||||||||||||||
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| Basic information | Name: Hadley Rille This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1971 Planet: Moon | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification history: |
This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites classified as EH. [show all] Search for other: Enstatite-rich meteorites, EH chondrites, and Enstatite chondrites | ||||||||||||||||
Writeup |
Writeup from MB 81:
Hadley Rille The Moon Found 1971 July–August Enstatite chondrite (EH) An object in the 1–2 mm size fraction of soil sample 15602,29 was recovered by Apollo 15 astronauts at Station 9, near Hadley Rille; the original mass, estimated from the thin section, was ~3 mg. Mineralogy and classification (Haggerty, 1972, and A. Rubin, UCLA): contains enstatite, kamacite (2.9–3.2% Si), niningerite, silica, schreibersite, troilite, albite, and daubreelite. Specimen: Lunar Sample Curator, JSC. | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutions and collections |
JSC: Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA (institutional address) UCLA: Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA (institutional address) |
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 81, MAPS 32, A159-A166 (1997)
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| Geography: |
Statistics: This is 1 of 2 approved meteorites from Moon | ||||||||||||||||
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