[meteorite-list] Lunar diamonds (was Kalahari 008 and weathering)

Darren Garrison cynapse at charter.net
Thu Apr 19 13:57:43 EDT 2007


On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:29:59 -0500, you wrote:

>I don't really know "how they did it," but most brecciated lunar
>meteorites do contain grains of metal - metal from asteroidal
>meteorites that strike the Moon and that created the breccias in the

This makes me think of something I've been wondering about-- have any micro
diamond been found in lunar materisl (either meteoritic or Apollo)?  Since some
large, high-speed impacts on Earth create diamonds, I'd think that they would
occur much more often on the moon, where every impact is a high-speed one.



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