Brand: Murray's Meteorites

Lunar Meteorites

Brand: Murray's Meteorites

Lunar Meteorites

  • Lunar Meteorites
  • Medium and Large Sizes Available
  • Comes in Foam-Padded Container
$25.00 USD

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Medium (0.10-0.19 g) Large (0.20-0.29 g) Extra Large (Only One Available - 7.89 g)

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Meteorites!!

Now you can own your very own piece of the moon. Lunar meteorites are formed when the moon ejects material from an impact crater. Because the Moon has no atmosphere to stop them, meteoroids strike the Moon every day. Lunar escape velocity averages 2.38 km/s (1.48 miles per second), only a few times the muzzle velocity of a common rifle (0.7-1.0 km/s). Any rock on the lunar surface that is accelerated by the impact of a meteoroid to lunar escape velocity or greater will leave the Moon’s gravitational influence.

Most rocks ejected from the Moon become captured by the gravitational field of either the Earth or the Sun and go into orbit around those bodies. Over a period of a few years to tens of thousands of years, those orbiting the Earth eventually fall to Earth. Those in orbit around the Sun may also eventually strike the Earth up to a few tens of millions of years after they were launched from the Moon.

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I love you to the moon and back

What a perfectly unique and inexpensive gift to give. Every time I give one, the recipients have been close to speechless.

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