Matter
- Name
- lunar soil sample 15040
- Family
- solid
- Comments
- in addition to the minerals, there are also: agglutinates: 47.9%, Basalt:5.1%, breccia: 8.5%, anorthosite: 0.2% + glass: 6.7%
- 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
- 15040
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- A trench of about 12 - 14 inches deep was dug by Jim Irwig at the bottom of the Soil Mechanics Trench at station 8, near the ALSEP site. 15040 is a soil sample from the top of the trench. Trench is located 12 m southwest of a 5 m diameter crater
- 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 52 microns (Graf 1993)
- Oxides
-
Formula $TiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $FeO$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ Mass fraction (%) 1.7 14.2 14.5 0.19 11.5 11.6 0.44 0.092 - Oxides comments
- data from Korotev et al. (1987) in wt%