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- Moon_rock abstract "Moon rock or lunar rock is rock that is found on the Earth's moon, or lunar material collected during the course of human exploration of the Moon.Moon rocks on Earth come from three sources: those collected by the US Apollo manned lunar landings from 1969 to 1972; samples returned by three Soviet Luna unmanned probes in the 1970s; and rocks that were ejected naturally from the lunar surface by cratering events and subsequently fell to Earth as lunar meteorites. During the six Apollo landing missions, 2,415 samples weighing 380.96 kilograms (839.87 lb) were collected. Three Luna spacecraft returned with an additional 326 grams (11.5 oz) of samples. Since 1980, over 120 lunar meteorites representing about 60 different meteorite fall events (none witnessed) have been collected on Earth, with a total mass of over 48 kilograms (106 lb). About one third of these were discovered by US and Japanese teams searching for Antarctic meteorites (e.g., ANSMET), with most of the remainder having been discovered by collectors in the desert regions of northern Africa and Oman.Rocks from the Moon have been measured by radiometric dating techniques. They range in age from about 3.16 billion years old for the basaltic samples derived from the lunar maria, up to about 5.3 billion years old for rocks derived from the highlands. Based on the age dating technique of "crater counting," the youngest basaltic eruptions are believed to have occurred about 1.2 billion years ago, but scientists do not possess samples of these lavas. In contrast, the oldest ages of rocks from the Earth are between 3.8 and 4.28 billion years old.Almost all lunar rocks are depleted in volatiles and are completely lacking in hydrated minerals common in Earth rocks. In some regards, lunar rocks are closely related to Earth's rocks in their isotopic composition of the element oxygen. The Apollo moon rocks were collected using a variety of tools, including hammers, rakes, scoops, tongs, and core tubes. Most were photographed prior to collection to record the condition in which they were found. They were placed inside sample bags and then a Special Environmental Sample Container for return to the Earth to protect them from contamination. In contrast to the Earth, large portions of the lunar crust appear to be composed of rocks with high concentrations of the mineral anorthite. The mare basalts have relatively high iron values. Furthermore, some of the mare basalts have very high levels of titanium (in the form of ilmenite).".
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- Moon_rock wikiPageRevisionID "681640923".
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink ANSMET.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Africa.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Aluminium.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Anorthite.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Anorthosite.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Antarctic.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Saturn_V_Center.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Apollo_11.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Apollo_12.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Apollo_14.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Apollo_15.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Apollo_program.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Astronaut.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Basalt.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Breccia.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Buzz_Aldrin.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Calcium.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Category:Apollo_program.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extraterrestrial_rocks.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Category:Igneous_rocks.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lunar_samples.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Category:Lunar_science.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Category:Petrology.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Core_sample.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Descartes_(crater).
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Diorite.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Dunite.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Eugene_Cernan.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Europium_anomaly.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Feldspar.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Hadean.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Harrison_Schmitt.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Helium-3.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink High-Ti_basalt.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Houston.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Houston,_Texas.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Ilmenite.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Las_Cruces,_New_Mexico.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_ice.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Lunar_maria.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Mafic.
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Mars_meteorite.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Martian_meteorite.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Memorial_Museum_of_Astronautics.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Memorial_Museum_of_Cosmonautics.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Collins_(astronaut).
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- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Moon_landing.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Moscow.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink National_Museum_of_Natural_History.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Neil_Armstrong.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Norite.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Olivine.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Oman.
- Moon_rock wikiPageWikiLink Oxygen.