Matter
- Name
- lunar soil sample 74240
- Family
- solid
- Comments
- in addition to the minerals, there are also: agglutinates: 8%, Basalt:30%, breccia: 16.9%, anorthosite: 0.6% + glass: 22.5% and orange glass: 4%
- Database
- Level
- from sample return mission
- Origins
- planetary
- Provider
- Apollo Sample Curator - Mail code KT - NASA Johnson Space Center - 2101 NASA Parkway - Houston, Texas 77058-3696 USA
- Provider reference code
- 74240
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- Station 4, on the rim of Shorty Crater. Gray soil bordering a 1 m wide band of orange soil on the southern edge of a 5-8 cm deep trench.
- Preparation
- raw
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- superficial deposit
- Comments
- Unsieved fines
- Shape
- granular
- Texture
- loose granular
- Type of porosity
- porous
- Grain sizes
-
Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 1.0 ${\mu}m$ 16000.0 ${\mu}m$ 1.0 irregular - Comments
- the average grain size is 37 microns (Graf 1993)
- Oxides
-
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $TiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $FeO$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $P_{2}O_{5}$ Mass fraction (%) 41.55 7.45 13.35 14.89 0.22 9.19 11.54 0.48 0.12 0.1 - Oxides comments
- data from Rhodes et al. (1974) in wt%