Pinpointing the source of a lunar meteorite: implications for the evolution of the Moon.

نویسندگان

  • Edwin Gnos
  • Beda A Hofmann
  • Ali Al-Kathiri
  • Silvio Lorenzetti
  • Otto Eugster
  • Martin J Whitehouse
  • Igor M Villa
  • A J Timothy Jull
  • Jost Eikenberg
  • Bernhard Spettel
  • Urs Krähenbühl
  • Ian A Franchi
  • Richard C Greenwood
چکیده

The lunar meteorite Sayh al Uhaymir 169 consists of an impact melt breccia extremely enriched with potassium, rare earth elements, and phosphorus [thorium, 32.7 parts per million (ppm); uranium, 8.6 ppm; potassium oxide, 0.54 weight percent], and adherent regolith. The isotope systematics of the meteorite record four lunar impact events at 3909 +/- 13 million years ago (Ma), approximately 2800 Ma, approximately 200 Ma, and <0.34 Ma, and collision with Earth sometime after 9.7 +/- 1.3 thousand years ago. With these data, we can link the impact-melt breccia to Imbrium and pinpoint the source region of the meteorite to the Lalande impact crater.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Science

دوره 305 5684  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004