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Big Muley
Lunar Sample 61016, better known as "Big Muley", is a lunar sample discovered and collected on the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 in the Descartes Highlands, on the rim of Plum crater, near Flag crater. It is the largest sample returned from the Moon as part of the Apollo program. The rock, an 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/a16.sta1.html )〕 breccia consisting mainly of shocked anorthosite attached to a fragment of troctolitic "melt rock", is named after Bill Muehlberger, the Apollo 16 field geology team leader.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/61016.pdf )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.open.ac.uk/earth-research/tindle/AGT/AGT_Home_2010/NASA_61016A.html )〕 Big Muley is currently stored at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
==Description==
Big Muley was discovered on the eastern rim of Plum Crater (Station 1) in the Descartes highlands of the Moon. The rock's cosmic ray exposure age was discovered to be about 1.8 million years, linking it to ejecta, or debris, from the impact that formed South Ray crater, to the south of the Apollo 16 landing site.〔
The rock's age has been estimated since 1980 to be approximately 3.97 ± 0.25 billion years. The rock was highly shocked at some point in its history, as indicated by the fact that most of the rock's plagioclase content was converted to maskelynite and/or plagioclase glass.〔
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