A Piece of the Night Sky For Your Collection

When humans first set foot on the Moon nearly 60 years ago, it was our first visit to our lunar neighbor. As we'd find out, the Moon had already been visiting us for millennia in the form of meteorites.

Most meteorites from the Moon are made up of the loose sediment layer known as lunar regolith. These are ejected from the Moon’s gravitational pull during particularly strong impact events, catapulting rocks into orbit. This material is then drawn into Earth’s gravity and becomes a meteorite of its own.

As of 2026, only 821 of the over 80,000 known meteorite finds have been classified as lunar meteorites. This makes them incredibly rare, with less than 1% of known meteorites having originated from the Moon.

Today, we're sharing one of these rare specimens with you—a collector card with the incredible NWA 13951 Starry Night Lunar Meteorite.

The specimen is a dust sample from the lunar meteorite NWA 13951, first identified in Mauritania in 2021. NWA 13951 is a lunar feldspathic breccia, suggesting its origin point lies somewhere in the highlands, an area largely unexplored by the Apollo missions and thus ripe for research. Through meteorites like this, scientists can speculate on the geology of our celestial neighbor.

NWA 13951 is also known as the “Starry Night” meteorite. When cut open to examine its composition, the material exhibits a unique dark matrix with beautiful gray and white grains of plagioclase, pyroxene, and olivine, along with tiny iron-nickel inclusions. These mineral patterns call to mind an image of a star-filled night sky, reminding us of its incredible origin.

The material comes sealed in resin and affixed to an informational card that also serves as certificate of authenticity. It's a beautiful piece of our lunar neighbor that we're excited to share with you.