Extracting raw materials from extraterrestrial sources is a prerequisite for the expansion of our civilization into space. It will be necessary to acquire there practically all commonly used elements – including lithium. The most valuable source of this element currently appears to be lunar soil and rocks, especially K-rich rocks and breccias (>10 ppm of Li). Among the meteorites, the highest content of lithium is characterized by lunar mare basalts and gabbro, eucrites, Martian polymict breccia, nakhlites, howardites (>5 ppm), shergottites, chassignites, lunar anorthosites breccias, mesosiderites, ureilites (>2.5 ppm), diogenites, LL, angrites, H (>2 ppm), L, CM, CO, CV, EH, CI (>1.5 ppm), brachinites, aubrites, EL, CR (>1 ppm), CK and main-group pallasites (<1 ppm). This means that a potential extraterrestrial source of lithium can be the Moon, Mars, and the 4 Vesta minor planet considered as the probable parent body of HED meteorites



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锂的潜在地外来源

从外星资源中提取原材料是我们文明向太空扩展的先决条件。有必要在那里获取几乎所有常用元素——包括锂。目前，这种元素最有价值的来源似乎是月球土壤和岩石，尤其是富含钾的岩石和角砾岩（>10 ppm 的锂）。在陨石中，锂含量最高的特征是月球母马玄武岩和辉长岩、eucrites、火星混合角砾岩、nakhlites、霍华德石（> 5 ppm）、shergottites、chassignites、月球斜长石角砾岩、中铁陨石、ureilites（> 2.5 ppm）， diogenites, LL, angrites, H (>2 ppm), L, CM, CO, CV, EH, CI (>1.5 ppm), brachinites, aubrites, EL, CR (>1 ppm), CK and main-group pallasites ( <1 ppm）。