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What's the typical composition of a moon rock and how hard would it be to fake one?
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What's the typical composition of a moon rock and how hard would it be to fake one?



The Moon was made from the magma of Earth after it was jettisoned out due to a collision with a very large body. I think moon rocks are basalt sprinkled with olivine (perhaps peridotite) mafic to ultramafic igneous rocks.

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