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Hadley Rille meteorite

Meteorite on the Moon

Field	Value
Name	Hadley Rille meteorite
Image	Roving Hills - GPN-2000-001289.jpg
Image_caption	David R. Scott, Commander of Apollo 15 near the Hadley Rille (on the right). The Hadley Rille meteorite was found within a soil sample collected during this mission. The large rock in the photograph is not the meteorite.
Type	Chondrite
Class	Enstatite chondrite
Clan	EH-EL
Group	EH
Country	Earth's Moon
Region	Hadley Rille
Lat_Long
Observed_fall	No
Found_date	1971
TKW	3 mg

Samples 15600 to 15689 were collected using a rake tool, which was dragged along the surface to collect fragments in an unbiased way from the lunar regolith. This photo was taken after the rake sample was collected. The Hadley Rille Meteorite was one of many samples collected with the rake from this location.

The Hadley Rille meteorite was a meteorite discovered on the Moon at coordinates 26° 26' 0" N, 3° 39' 20" E, or Station 9A, during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. It was the second meteorite to be discovered on a Solar System body other than the Earth. The first was the Bench Crater meteorite, discovered in 1969 during the Apollo 12 mission.

Characteristics

Within the soil sample 15602,29 collected near Hadley Rille was found an object in the 1 – size. The Hadley Rille meteorite massed about 3 mg and contained enstatite, kamacite, niningerite, silica, schreibersite, troilite, albite, and daubréelite. It is classed as an enstatite chondrite (EH) by the Meteoritical Society.

References

[http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/index.php?code=11469 Meteoritical Bulletin Database: ''Hadley Rille'']

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