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PLNClassification: Lunar melt breccia W-low / S-high
Place/Time: 2025 in Libya
Mass: 273g
History: The meteorite was purchased from a dealer in Libya.
Physical characteristics: Dark grayish rock with some fusion crust.
Petrography: The meteorite is a melt-breccia composed of up to 1.5 cm sized feldspathic, basaltic, gabbroic, and melt clasts plus up to 2 mm sized mineral fragments set in a fine-grained partly glassy melt rock matrix displaying abundant flow textures. Predominant minerals are olivine, zoned pyroxene, and anorthite. Minor phases include ilmenite, troilite, and FeNi metal.
Geochemistry: olivine: Fa28.3±0.4 (Fa27.6-29.0, FeO/MnO=82±4; n=7); more ferroan olivine: Fa37.7±0.3 (Fa37.4-38.2, FeO/MnO=92±11; n=7); zoned olivine: Fa17.3±2.2 (Fa15.5-21.0, FeO/MnO=103±17; n=7); zoned pyroxene: Fs38.1±12.7Wo13.0±7.0 (Fs26.4-56.1Wo6.2-26.6, FeO/MnO=57±8, n=7); calcic plagioclase: An95.4±1.0 (An93.5-96.7, n=7)
NOTE: Full slices approximately 1.4 mm thick, one side polished and covered with paraloid.
