Northwest Africa 11788 2.3g

Description

Found in Mali and examined and classified by the Institute of Meteoritics at UNM, Albuquerque, NWA 11788 is darker in color, with green and grey hues and is a breccia consisting of fragments of various lunar minerals including plagioclase, pyroxene, and olivine that have been compressed together over time.
Marvelous lunar with shock blackened matrix. Many specimens display shock veins, vesiculation (gas pockets), and impactor metal. There are smaller finer clasts in the breccia. It has a total known weight of only 10.44 kilograms.