Oman contributed 16% of world's meteorite finds in 2011

Oman contributed 16% of world's meteorite finds in 2011
MENAFN, Muscat Daily, January 25, 2103
http://www.menafn.com/menafn/1093602529/--Oman-contributed-16-of-worlds-meteorite-finds-2011?src=RSS

Note that this article states: 

"''Now, export of any kind of rock is prohibited unless authorised by the relevant authority,'' he said."

and

"Oman's Mining Law, The Mining Law issued by Royal Decree No 27/2003, prohibits the practice of all rock and mineral and exploratory activities and trading in the same without obtaining permission from the Directorate General of Minerals."

Some other older articles.

Experts study meteorites, Oman Observer
Mon, 17 December 2012
http://main.omanobserver.om/node/133724

Oman is major site for meteor discovery (Country was second only to Antarctica in meteor finds until 2007) Emirates 24/7, October 19, 2010
http://www.emirates247.com/news/oman-is-major-site-for-meteor-discovery-2010-10-19-1.306190

Searching for Meteorites in the Deserts of Oman
by Simon Mitton, Live Science, May 18, 2009
http://www.livescience.com/3613-searching-meteorites-deserts-oman.html


Related papers are:

Korotev, R. L., 2012, Lunar meteorites from Oman.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 47, no 8,
pp. 1365–1402 (August 2012)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01393.x/abstract


Hofmann, B. A., E. Gnos, A. Al-Kathiri, and A. J. T. Jull,
2006, Meteorite accumulation surfaces in Oman: Main
results of Omani-Swiss meteorite search campaigns,
2001-2006. 4th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Bern 2006.
http://geoscience-meeting.scnatweb.ch/sgm2006/SGM06_abstracts/08_OS_Min_Pet/Hofmann_Beda_Talk_or_Poster.pdf

Best wishes,
Paul H.

Moon Rock Suggests Early Moon’s Core Had a Magnetic Field

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 21 15:52:46 EST 2009

Rock Suggests Early Moon’s Fiery Core Churned a Magnetic Field
New York Times, United States - Jan 19, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/science/space/20moon.html?ref=science

Moon Rock Suggests the Young Moon Had a Fiery Core and
a Magnetic Field

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/20/moon-rock-suggests-the-young-moon-had-a-fiery-core-and-a-magnetic-field/

Tiny Moon Rock Reveals Molten Lunar Core
January 20, 2009, 13:40 CST

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1625782/tiny_moon_rock_reveals_molten_lunar_core/

Garrick-Bethell, I., B. P. Weiss, D. L. Shuster, J. and Buz,
2009, Early Lunar Magnetism. Science, vol. 323, no. 5912,
pp. 356 - 359

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5912/356

Yours,

Paul H.

New Paper on Lunar meteorite, Miller Range (MIL) 05035

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Thu May 29 10:37:22 EDT 2008

A paper about a new lunar meteorite has been accepted for
publication in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. It is:

Joy, K. H., I. A. Crawford, M. Anand, R. C. Greenwood, I. A.
Franchi, and S. S. Russell, in press, The Petrology and
Geochemistry of Miller Range 05035: A New Lunar Gabbroic
Meteorite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Miller Range (MIL) 05035 is identified as a lunar gabbroic
meteorite. Its mineralogy, bulk-rock chemical composition and
the bulk oxygen isotope values are similar to those of other
mare basalts. It consists predominately of pyroxene grains
with large plagioclase feldspars and accessory quartz, ilmenite,
spinel, apatite and troilite. This meteorite is similar to
Asuka-881757 and Yamato-793169 and basaltic regolith
breccia MET 01210.

Yours,

Paul H.