The Moon – lunar feldspathic breccia; Sahara Desert, Mauritania

The sphere composed of fragments of olivine, pigeonite, augite, ilmenite and signature white anorthite naturally cemented together by what was a melt of lunar regolith and other crushed rock. The curved face of this sphere reveals a number of inclusions, the result of the ongoing bombardment to which the Moon’s surface was exposed prior to the collision responsible for launching this rock to Earth. Modern fashioning.
1²⁄₃in (4cm.) diameter
91g.

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