A New Rock Type Found at Tycho

Details A New Rock Type Found at Tycho A New Rock Type Found at Tycho

Mar 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002lpi....33.1056l&link_type=abstract

33rd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 11-15, 2002, Houston, Texas, abstract no.1056

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LP and spectral data suggest that the crater Tycho exposed a new rock
type. It is an anorthositic gabbro with 2-4 wt% FeO, a plagioclase to
mafic+plag ratio of 65-70, and a mafic mineral assemblage dominated by
high-Ca pyroxene with Mg* of 70-80.

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