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Take the Moon with you everywhere you go. Add a cosmic touch to your jewelry collection with lunar meteorite jewelry, guaranteed authentic.
What is a lunar meteorite? In simple terms, they are rocks from the Moon. The Moon is about 238,855 miles away from the Earth, and Moon rocks are believed to have been launched from its surface within the past 20 million years.
Lunar meteorites are incredibly rare. Only about 694 lunar meteorites have been found, as of 2024. Most Moon rocks are discovered in Northwest Africa, but some have also been found in Antarctica. Currently, there have not been any lunar meteorites found in the United States. There have also not been any witnessed lunar meteorite falls.
How do we know lunar meteorites came from the Moon? NASA’s Apollo missions and the USSR’s Luna missions both returned samples from the Moon’s surface. Luna 16 (USSR) was the first mission to successfully return samples from the Moon in 1970. The soil the robotic probe collected was found to be similar to samples returned by Apollo 12.
This necklace is handmade using sterling silver and pure crystal glass, which is domed to magnify the lunar meteorite fragments contained with them; the Northwest Africa 11788 lunar meteorite was found in Mali in 2017.
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