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Moon-Walk Mineral Discovered in Western Australia | The last mineral thought to have been unique to the Moon has been discovered in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. It was identified by researchers at The University of Western Australia’s Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA). Tranquillityite, named after the Sea of Tranquillity* where the Apollo 11 moon-walkers landed in July 1969, was tentatively identified by Professor Birger Rasmussen from Curtin University while studying a polished slice of earthly rock in a scanning electron microscope. When lunar rocks were first analysed in the 1970s after having been brought to Earth by US astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins, scientists identified three minerals — armalcolite (after Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins), pyroxferroite and tranquillityite — that they believed were unique to the Moon. Armalcolite and pyroxferroite were later found on Earth, but when the CMCA’s Dr Janet Muhling and Assistant Professor Alexandra Suvorova and their colleagues from Curtin University, published a recent paper in the journal Geology, they showed for the first time that tranquillityite occurred also on Earth. continue reading 

Moon-Walk Mineral Discovered in Western Australia |

The last mineral thought to have been unique to the Moon has been discovered in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. It was identified by researchers at The University of Western Australia’s Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA).

Tranquillityite, named after the Sea of Tranquillity* where the Apollo 11 moon-walkers landed in July 1969, was tentatively identified by Professor Birger Rasmussen from Curtin University while studying a polished slice of earthly rock in a scanning electron microscope.

When lunar rocks were first analysed in the 1970s after having been brought to Earth by US astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins, scientists identified three minerals — armalcolite (after Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins), pyroxferroite and tranquillityite — that they believed were unique to the Moon.

Armalcolite and pyroxferroite were later found on Earth, but when the CMCA’s Dr Janet Muhling and Assistant Professor Alexandra Suvorova and their colleagues from Curtin University, published a recent paper in the journal Geology, they showed for the first time that tranquillityite occurred also on Earth. continue reading 

Source news.uwa.edu.au

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