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Rutile from
Apollo 16 landing site, Descartes Highlands, The Moon


Locality type:Landing Site
Classification
Species:Rutile
Formula:TiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Apollo 16 landing site, Descartes Highlands, The Moon
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:742665
Long-form Identifier:1:3:742665:0
GUID (UUID V4):3367b33c-e691-4c5b-adc3-700ba3547983
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for multiple 4.0–3.7 Ga impact events within the Apollo 16 collection Takafumi NIIHARA 1,2,3,4*, Sky P...Abstract–In a histogram of lunar impact ages from the Apollo 16 site, there is a spike circa 3.9 Ga that has been...were affected slightly differently by the event that produced the Imbrium basin. To further scrutinize...similar to previously defined group 1 Apollo 16 impact melt rocks, while the other two have higher Al2O3 and...target sequences. Eighteen 40Ar/39Ar analyses of the six clasts produced an age range from 3823  75 to
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE Volume 1: Mineralogy and Petrology GEOGHIMICA ETCpSNIQCHllyliCA AC^ China-America...una 14 DAY BOOK This book is due on or before the latest date stamped beiow MAR04’86'CSUN.l^/E8 2...COSMOCHIMICA ACTA # SUPPLEMENT 5 PROCEEDINGS OE THE FIFTH LUNAR SCIENCE CONFERENCE Houston, Texas, March...THREE VOLUMES deal primarily with Earth and its Moon, but in a very real sense they are discussing,...histories of planetary bodies throughout the solar system, if not the universe. It is in this rather philosophical
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The Lunar Sourcebook, a concisely presented collection of data gathered during the American and Soviet...current scientific and technical information about the Moon. This book provides a thorough introduction to...information about the nature of the lunar environment. It explores the formation and evolution of the Moon’s surface...surface, the chemical and mineralogical nature of lunar rocks and soils, and the current state of scientific...scientific knowledge about the nature, origin, and history of the Moon. The book is written and edited by
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MINERALOGY & GEOCHEMISTRY Volume 60 NEW VIEWS of the MOON EDITORS: Bradley L. Jolliff, Mark A. Wieczorek...This book is dedicated to the memory of the late Graham Ryder, who was one of the original four members of...of CAPTEM when the New Views of the Moon scientific initiative was first conceived. Graham, who was a...owing to his broad knowledge of the lunar samples and his residence at the Lunar and Planetary Institute...where CAPTEM met, was a logical choice to be one of the co-leaders of this lunarscience initiative. Not only
Book
(base of the North Massif) on the north side of the Taurus-Littrow Valley, during the Apollo 17 mission...mission. The front portion of the Lunar Roving Vehicle is visible at the left. The directional antenna (umbrella... Lunar Science: A Po st-Apollo View Scientific Results and Insights from the Lunar Samples STUART ROSS...1925Lunar science: a post-Apollo view. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Moon. I. Title. QB592.T38 1975...detail visible on the lunar surface in this near terminator photo taken during the Apollo 16 mission. View
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The Moon - our sister planet Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin...https://archive.org/details/moonoursisterplaOOOOcado The Moon — our sister planet PETER H. CADOGAN CAMBRIDGE...ROCHELLE Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington...publication data Cadogan, Peter H. The Moon - our sister planet 1. Moon I. Title 523.3 QB581 80-41564 ISBN... Contents Preface v page vii The Moon from a distance 1 1.1 Why study the Moon? 1 1.2 Basic motion and
Journal (issue)
OF THE APOLLO LANDING SITE (NASA-CR-191637) GEOLOGY OF THE SITE (Lunar 17 WORKSHOP ON APOLLO 17 LANDING...LANDING Science Inst.) 70 N93-18786 --THRU-N93-18817 Unclas p G3/91 __ LPI Technical LUNAR ...77058-1113 WORKSHOP GEOLOGY ON OF THE APOLLO 17 LANDING SITE Edited by G. Ryder, H. H. Schmitt,...1992by LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE The Instituteis operatedby the University SpaceResearchAssociationunderContractNo...volume sonal research permission purposes; of the authors may be copied however, without restraint
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STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY by JOHN. F. LINDSAY, The Lunar Science Institute, Houston, Texas, and University...AND SPACE SCIENCE, 3 The Apollo .missions to the moon provided geologists with the first samples from another...of the moon by orders of magnitude. Thus, available texts concerned with the geology of the moon were...Stratigraphy and Sedimentology" summarizes data from the Apollo missions and integrates it with earlier telescopic...observations to provide a historical geology of the moon. It deals with the subject in a way which is readily understandable
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Wii mM PLANETARY PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY The Lawrence A . Taylor 60" Birthday Volume International...Neal, and W. Gary Ernst, editors Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with funding from Kahle/Austin...GEOCHEMISTRY PLANETARY PETROLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY The Lawrence A. Taylor 60" Birthday Volume International...Gary Ernst, editors Bellwether Publishing, Yd. tor the Geological Society of America Copyright © 1999...Publishing, Ltd. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication
Report (issue)
ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 17 PRELIMINARY SCIENCE REPORT Apollo 17 command and service module over the Taurus-Littrow...Taurus-Littrow landing site. NASA SP-330 Preliminary Science Report PREPARED BY LYNDOI\1 B. JOHNSON SPACE...Washington, D.C. EDITORIAL BOARD The material submitted for the "Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report"...reviewed by a NASA Editorial Review Board consisting of the following members: Robert A. Parker (Chairman), Richard...right: (I) The command and service module scientific instrument module bay viewed from the lunar module
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive...translated into a machine language with¬ out the written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging...Printed in the United States of America 10 987654321 Preface This book is intended for use as the main textbook...space geology (astrogeology, planetary geology or the like). Although many excellent articles have been...aspects of this broad topic, the literature is badly scattered and is, for the most part, rather recent.
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and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University, 1 Brookings...intermediate to those of the numerous feldspathic lunar meteorites (3– 7% FeO) and the basaltic lunar meteorites...points on the Moon where mare basalt has mixed with material of the FHT (Feldspathic Highlands Terrane)...Sm) consist mainly of nonmare mafic material from the nearside PKT (Procellarum KREEP Terrane) and a few...few are ternary mixtures of material from the FHT, PKT, and maria. Some contain mafic, nonmare lithologies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
elsevier.com/locate/gca Thermal history recorded by the Apollo 17 impact melt breccia 73217 M.L. Grange a,*...Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western...investigate the thermal history of the sample. Equant, anhedral zircon grains that probably formed in the gabbronorite...3929 ± 10 Ma, similar to the 3936 ± 17 Ma age of apatite grains found in the thin section. A combined...apatite-type-3 zircon age of 3934 ± 12 Ma is proposed as the age of the Serenitatis impact event and associated thermal
Report (Issue volume)
38-297 WITHDRAWN LIR-ARY SFASU Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin...COSMOCHIMICA SUPPLEMENT ACTA 7 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH LUNAR SCIENCE Houston, Texas, March CONFERENCE...wonderful worlds, the illustration of Un for GRANDVILLE including Autre Monde of the leading caricature...superb and the delights of political satirists of early nineteenth-century France, developing the art of...targets (prominent members of the French it expedient to suppress the journals in which he published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 35th ANNUAL MEETING THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY November 16-18,1972 Chicago, Illinois...E. Grudewicz and J. To Wasson: The extralunar component in the Apollo-l6 regolith Ao J. Bauman and John...Blander, K. Keil, H. N. Planner and L. So Nelson: The origin of chondrules; o. experimental investigation...L. Eo Nyquist: Noble gas concentrations in Apollo 15 and 16 deep drill cores .. W. Vo Boynton and R. A...abundances in calcium-poor achondrites Ao Brecher: The paleomagnetic record in carbonaceous meteorites D
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 44th ANNUAL MEETING THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY AUGUST 17-21, 1981...We have analyzed three plagioclase fractions by the 39Ar-4oAr-method: coarse plag A. 7 aggregates> I...This value agrees with the Rb-Sr-ageof4.09 ± .06 AE (Nyquistetal .. 1981). The Srn-Nd-isochron gives an...with the hypothesis that4.34 AE is a lower limit for the crystallization age of the norite, and the release...real event, possibly the shock. A later shock at around 3.5 AEcannot be seen in the release pattern of
Book (edition)
Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona (a k a Meteor Crater) Second Edition...Edition Prepared by David A. Kring for the 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society July 2017 Copyright...appropriate acknowledgment of the source is maintained. Republication of any portion of the guidebook or any commercial...requires written permission from the author (David A. Kring) or the Lunar and Planetary Institute, in...of the source. David A. Kring (2017) LPI Contribution No.2040 i Note about the Cover Art The cover
Report (issue)
hydrologic investigations in progress and a report on the status of topographic mapping UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...WASHINGTON : 1973 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...Congress catalog-card No. 68-461 SO For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing...Survey Research 1973," is the 14th annual review highlighting and summarizing the U.S. Geological Survey's...past years, it has been the first or A Chapter of a four-chapter series, the other three of which were
Report (issue)
UPPLEMENT 16 .. SU GEOCHIMICA ETT COSMOCHIMICA ACTA + Journal ey The Geochemical ce and. The ercenitter]...miles). North is at the upper right edge of the disc. Seen above the planet are the satellites Dione (right)...spot at the south edge of a yellow band; in true color, the spot would appear brown and the band white...spot slightly above and to the left in this image moves eastward relative to the green spot at a rate that...it to pass the green feature in about 50 days. The convective clouds that appear between the two spots
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Matter Throughout Earth’s History Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin... A C.LP. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. All rights reserved No part...otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Printed in the United States of America IN MEMORIAM...address on the occasion of Max Planck’s 60th birthday, stated that scientists were much like the “builders...approach the complexity of Nature itself. Paolo Farinella, who passed away on March 25, 2000 at the peak
Report (issue)
fiscal year 1971, accompanied by short papers in the fields of geology, hydrology, and related sciences...WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...hydrologic investigations in progress, and a report on the status of topographic mapping UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...WASHINGTON: 1971 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E. McKelvey, Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
two new eucrites, Dhofar 007 from the Oman desert and NWA 011 from the Sahara desert. Based on chemical...region, Oman, and a single stone of 40 g was found in the Sahara in 1999. Achondrite Dhofar 007 is monomictic...phases: pigeonite (FS~~-*, Wo3-'J and augite (FS=-~~. The ratio Mgl(Mg + Fe) is 0.59, F a n = 34 (atomic),...abundances show a distinct positive Eu anomaly and the content of Sm is 0.67 ppm (Fig. 1). Northwest Africa...pigeonite (Fs,-,, WO,~ and augite (Fs43-50.Wo30-38).The ratio Mg/(Mg + Fe) is 0.34, F eN n = 69 (atomic)
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an updated look at crystal field theory - one of the simplest models of chemical bonding - and its applications...applied to elements of the first transition series and provides a link between the visible region spectra...numerous rock-forming minerals and gems that contain the elements iron, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese...properties. A unique perspective of the second edition is that it highlights the properties of minerals that...workers interested in the crystal chemistry, spectroscopy and geochemistry of the transition elements.
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Ag2Y\bu g‡bg2Y\bu 2! O8 ‘‹EB“u 1.01 Origin of the Elements J. W. Truran, Jr. and A. Heger University...1 Hydrogen burning 1.01.4.1.2 Helium burning and the s-process 1.01.4.1.3 Hydrogen and helium shell burning...Explosive nucleosynthesis 1.01.4.1.8 The p-process 1.01.4.1.9 The r-process 1.01.5 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE:...galaxies, stars and supernovae play the dominant role both in synthesizing the elements from carbon to uranium...heavyelement-enriched matter to the interstellar gas from which new stars are formed. The mass fraction of our solar
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September 5, 2008, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will fly by the main-belt asteroid...good constraints of the asteroid’s physical characteristics were measured before the encounter. Observations:...characteristics and determine the most likely meteoritic analogue. Given that the rotation period of this asteroid...each hemisphere of the asteroid. An examination of the spectra demonstrates that the asteroid has a significant...addition, previous investigators have determined that the albedo of Steins is ~0.30–0.55 [2, 3]. This suggests
 
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