Abstract
While source regions for lunar meteorites are generally unspecified unlike Apollo returned samples, they likely represent random sampling of the global lunar surface. Source craters/sites can be specified only for lunar meteorites with extremely chemical compositions, coupled with isotopic ages of basalt formation, impact events, and ejection from the Moon. The detailed knowledge of the lunar meteorites enables us to identify the source regions, with the aid of the global elemental distribution map based on the remote-sensing data. Such source-identified lunar meteorites are of great importance not only in providing the geologic information of the unexplored regions, but in serving as "ground truth" for the specific sites which can be utilized for calibration of the orbital data. We report the lunar meteorites with the identified source craters/sites, which will be major science targets to be studied with KAGUYA data.
