To create a sphere, one starts with preparing a cubic sample. Each of the eight corners are then trimmed to result in a 14-sided polyhedron prior to being mounted in a sphere-making machine. It is from the cut corners that the smaller lunar beads originate. It’s only due to the relative luxury of there being a good deal of NWA 12691 that the possibility of fashioning lunar spheres exists. [The conservatorship of one of the rarest materials on Earth is necessary as the trimming, grinding and polishing regimens in sphere fabrication result in material loss; a specimen much larger than the resulting sphere is initially required.] Several of the beads in the previous lot originate from the very same mass as this sphere. Moon rocks are identified by specific textural, mineralogical, chemical and isotopic signatures. Many of the common minerals found on Earth’s surface are rare or absent on the Moon and some lunar minerals are unknown on Earth. Every lunar meteorite known to exist can fit in the back of a large SUV and a significant fraction is controlled by governmental institutions. Along with plagioclase feldspar, olivine and pyroxene, this lunar breccia sphere includes signature white anorthite — rare on Earth and common on the Moon — all of which was crushed by repeated asteroid impacts on the lunar surface and “cemented” by a melt of lunar regolith. The official classification of the material from which this sphere was hewn was performed by Dr. Anthony Irving, one of the world’s foremost classifiers of lunar and Martian meteorites. Among the rarest substances on Earth, now offered is an exceedingly limited and captivating presentation of our Moon, fashioned from a Moon rock that was ejected off the lunar surface following an asteroid impact. Modern fashioning by Martin Roberts. The analysis of NWA 12691 was led by Dr. Anthony Irving, whose findings underwent peer review by the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society. The analysis and classification we