The Bench Crater meteorite is a meteorite discovered on the Moon by Apollo 12 astronauts in 1969. It is part of the friable basalt lunar sample 12037. Found on the north-west rim of the Bench Crater, it is the first meteorite to be discovered on a Solar System body other than the Earth. Its diameter is just a few millimeters. It is listed as a carbonaceous chondrite by the Meteoritical Society.
See also Glossary of meteoritics Big Bertha (lunar sample) Hadley Rille meteorite Heat Shield Rock (Mars – Meridiani Planum meteorite) List of Martian meteorites List of meteorites on Mars
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