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Parisa Moon(lunar) meteorite

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A lunar meteorite is a rock ejected from the Moon, orbiting the Sun or Earth for a long time, and eventually being captured by the Earth's gravitational field and falling to Earth as a solid object through the atmosphere. They arrive on our planet after an asteroid or possibly comet strikes the surface of the Moon. The meteorite exchanges kinetic energy with the rock fragments, so the ejected particles are accelerated faster than the Moon's escape velocity (approximately 2.38 km/s) and escape the Moon's gravitational influence. Given that the distance between the Earth and the Moon is relatively small, in astronomical terms (less than 0.003 astronomical units), the transfer of lunar material to our planet is very rapid, usually taking less than 100,000 years. Lunar meteorites are sometimes called lunaites.

 

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