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Loading contentRocks blasted off the Moon by impacts, matched to Apollo samples.
Pieces of the Moon flung to Earth by impacts, whose mineralogy matches the samples returned by the Apollo and Luna missions — a free supply of lunar rock from unsampled regions.
1 modelled meteorite.
The first meteorite recognised as a piece of the Moon, recovered from Antarctica in 1982 — its match to Apollo samples proved that lunar rocks can be delivered to Earth as meteorites.
Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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