On Dec. 11 Members of the
Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, based at Case Western Reserve University found a golf ball-sized lunar meteorite on the Miller Range, Antarctica.
The space rock was possibly blasted off the lunar surface by an asteroid impact soon after the moon's formation 4.5 billion years ago.
The sample, whose discovery was announced Tuesday, is exceedingly rare, one of less than 50 lunar meteorites found on Earth, and only the second of its geologic type. Further analysis of the innocuous tan rock known as MIL 05035 may shed light on the moon's violent early history.
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Meteorite hunters have found a rock in Antarctica that they’ve traced to the moon – but an area of the moon that is virtually a geological terra incognita, or should that be luna incognita? Experts say there’s only one other sample like it in the world.
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14-September-2006, 12:39 AM
Moon rock found in Antarctica
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