[meteorite-list] NEW - NWA 4932 Lunar - AD

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Hi Greg,

Congratulations on your New Lunar!


Sonny


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe at htn.net>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 1:27 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] NEW - NWA 4932 Lunar - AD







Dear List Members, 
 

I would like to announce a NEW and unpaired Lunar meteorite that I have 
had
for two years. Since that time, no pairings have been found, this new 
Impact
Melt Breccia (IMB) stands by itself in the world's known lunar 
inventory!
"Thank You" Michael Johnson for dedicating November 9, 2009 as the 
'Picture
of the Day' for NWA 4932! 
 

NWA 4932 is an unusual new lunar meteorite found in the Sahara Desert 
in
October 2007. A single 93.3 gram stone was found, and after continuous
searching of the area since the find, no pairings have been recovered. 
Being
an Impact Melt Breccia (IMB), it takes a very high polish, which 
strongly
displays the minute details such as very fine-grained texture, many 
small
white clasts and occasional nickel-iron metal grains dispersed 
throughout
the stone. These metal grains have been analyzed by a prominent 
laboratory
and have the same composition as that of enstatite chondrite metal 
(from
previous impactors that struck the Moon). 
 

 

NWA 4932 is compositionally very similar to material brought back to 
Earth
by NASA's Apollo 16 mission in 1972. With such a low Total Known 
Weight,
there are only a small handful of slices available to collectors and
museums. Each slice has been expertly polished to a high luster on one 
side
to display the characteristics of this lunaite. 
 

Here is a list of the only available specimens of NWA 4932, four have
already sold!! 
 

24.5g Main Mass 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00001.jpg 

4.020g ps 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00004.jpg 

3.844g cs 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00005.jpg 

3.776g ps 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00006.jpg 

3.332g cs 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00007.jpg 

3.112g cs 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00008.jpg 

2.812g cs 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00009.jpg 

284mg ps 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00012.jpg 

268mg ps 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00013.jpg 

230mg ps 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00014.jpg 

156mg ps 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00015.jpg 

852mg fragment 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00017.jpg 

3.548g cut fragment 

http://www.lunarrock.com/nwa4932/dsc00018.jpg 
 

cs = complete slice 

ps = part slice 
 

If you are interested in one of these fascinating stand-alone lunar
specimens, please email me Off-List for pricing. 
 

Thank you for your interest, and if you are just looking, please enjoy 
the
photos! 
 

I also have eBay auctions of other planetary and other rare meteorites
ending tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov. 11th). Of particular interest is a 
small
piece of Hoba Ataxite, sizable specimens of achondrites and other 
goodies.
Click here for my current eBay auctions:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault 
 

Best regards, 

Greg 
 

==================== 

Greg Hupe 

The Hupe Collection 

NaturesVault (eBay) 

gmhupe at htn.net 

www.LunarRock.com 

IMCA 3163 

==================== 

Click here for my current eBay auctions:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault 
 


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